Science news articles about 'clinical benefit'

... Center. The findings, presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, mark the first clinical benefit of a small molecule targeted agent and standard ...

... (IFX) anti-TNF therapy, 61.8% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) showed substantial clinical benefit (ASAS40, ASsessment in AS, 40-response) and 27.6% achieved ASAS partial remission. ...

... .8 percent of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) showed substantial clinical benefit and 27.6 percent achieved ASAS partial remission. At five years, 78.4 percent of ...

... these findings indicate "calcineurin inhibitor withdrawal not only shows potential for long-term clinical benefits, but also is expected to be cost-saving over a patient's life compared with the most ...

... first to show direct and continual proportionality between the strength of anti-tumor responses and clinical benefits in cancer patients. This also may be the first documentation of a definite immune ...

... large and very expensive trials. And, of course, this increases the time it takes to test the clinical benefit of potential new therapies." The joint Australian/New Zealand team used microarrays to ...

... patients with renal cancer derive similar benefit from sorafenib therapy and tolerate the drug equally ... compared the two patient groups with respect to clinical benefit, side effects reported, and self ...

... : does antifungal therapy provide any clinical benefit," said David Denning, F.R.C ... variety of fungi without showing overt clinical signs or demonstrable colonization. It is these patients with severe ...

... with HIV drugs, we can reduce AIDS-related complications and death by 50 percent. It's a substantial clinical benefit." The study was conducted by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, the world's largest ...

Aiming for lower than standard blood pressure targets offers no known clinical benefit, according to a Cochrane Review. In a systematic review of the evidence, researchers found that using ...

Aiming for lower than standard blood pressure targets offers no known clinical benefit, according to a new study. In a systematic review of the evidence, researchers found that using antihypertensive ...

... among the first and largest to quantify warfarin's net clinical benefit, how much a treatment's potential ... therapy's overall effects than do older clinical studies. Go explains that Kaiser Permanente ...

... to show greater effectiveness than clopidogrel or a placebo for patients undergoing a procedure to open blocked coronary arteries, according to researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

... of the women had taking Arimidex alone had stable disease for more than 24 weeks and 34 percent had a clinical benefit. Patients in the combination arm did have a higher rate of adverse events, but ...

... suggest that although the HIV protease inhibitors cannot reattach the retina, they might be of clinical benefit through their ability to prevent the photoreceptor apoptosis that has a central role in ...