Drug firms get a 20-year monopoly on new chemicals they invent, but at least half that time is usually eaten by tests to prove safety and effectiveness.
Researchers hope that if the ongoing preliminary studies prove the safety and effectiveness of these drugs for certain treatments, the government will step in to fund larger trials.
To help prove the heart safety of Arcoxia, Merck announced a 23, 542-patient trial called MEDAL in September 2002.
In a country where rulers are edgy about the masses getting too much power, the carefully channelled discussions of a deliberative poll could prove a useful safety valve.
By April this year, under a European directive, all manufactured herbal medicines will have to be registered under a new scheme to prove they meet safety and quality standards.
Merck hadn't disclosed key results or started a big study to prove Vioxx's safety.
The Lynx is a technical pathfinder to that -- something that could make money and prove the reliability and safety of the technology.
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Prexige will be tested in 13, 000 patients before it goes before the Food and Drug Administration, and then in another 18, 000 to try and dispel any hint of cardiovascular trouble and perhaps prove the drug has safety benefits.
Aventis had to run a gigantic, 24, 000-patient safety trial to prove the medicine is safe.
He told CNN he didn't know whether they had been moved for their own safety or to prove a point by the Taliban.
It will even look for worrisome side effects, hoping to definitively prove that its product has a safety advantage.
And the new research joins numerous previous studies on cell phone radiation that have been unable to definitively prove or disprove cell phones' safety.
So, for investors in search of yield and safety, corporate credit could prove attractive.
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Mr Astle said the company was unable to produce evidence to prove the vehicle had been given routine safety inspections, as required.
Under these laws, up to 70% of immigrants in detention are required to be imprisoned, without any individual assessment of their risk to public safety, while the government tries to prove that it has the authority to deport them.
It gets them off the hook, it provides Arena with a another legitimate argument for the safety of lorcaserin and the opportunity to further prove the lack of human risk.
Asset classes that promise safety (e.g. gold) may actually prove to be more volatile rather than less.
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Bernstein's Porges has written that it may prove difficult to convince insurers to let doctors and patients try the drug unless its effectiveness and safety far outstrip that of Fosamax.
The catastrophe unfolding in the Gulf right now may prove to be a result of human error, or of corporations taking dangerous shortcuts to compromise safety, or a combination of both.
Food safety experts have raised concerns about the proliferation of genetically engineered food products, saying such production technologies can prove harmful.
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