How to Use clinical trial in a Sentence

clinical trial

noun
  • And three large clinical trials since 2007 showed the drug doesn't work.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The next step is to select wines with both low and high levels of quercetin and test them in a small human clinical trial.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The same goes for new treatments tested in clinical trials.
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 18 Nov. 2023
  • More than a dozen men in the U.K. are now taking a new hormone-free contraceptive as part of the drug’s first clinical trial.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • For the latter group, Karmo is pushing for Black women to take part in clinical trials.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
  • For just ten minutes a day, this device’s clinical trials have shown a reversal of hair loss in just four months.
    Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Now, more than 100 people have received the drug in early clinical trials.
    WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In a large clinical trial, lecanemab was able to reduce the progression of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
    Soeren Mattke, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Two years later late-stage clinical trials for the drug, called intepirdine, flopped.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In a clinical trial, the unique pump extracted almost twice as much milk on average as the most popular pumps on the market.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The approach is still far from clinical trials, but offers a new pathway for scientists to target hard-to-treat cancers.
    Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Both vaccines were more than 80% effective in clinical trials to test them.
    Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Many have never been tested in the kind of clinical trial which proves that this drug or this supplement will actually work.
    Liz Seegert, Fortune Well, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In a clinical trial, researchers could assign people of the same age, and who had the same lifestyle and eating habits, a time of day to exercise and then directly compare the results.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Aslam says clinical trials will help shed light on which patients and what types of infections may be best suited for phage therapy.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In order to participate in the clinical trial, patients had to be allergic to peanuts along with two other foods.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers have filed a provisional patent and expect to ask the Food and Drug Administration for approval to run a clinical trial, Tang said.
    Elaine Chen, STAT, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That protection lasts through their first six months, clinical trial data showed.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Stephanie Hathaway, whose suicidal thoughts were vanquished by Zulresso in the 2017 clinical trial, believes the drug saved her life.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2023
  • There are no treatments or vaccines for Marburg, but there are some candidates that have shown promise in Phase 1 clinical trials.
    Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The process was similar to a clinical trial for a new drug, in which some patients are randomly assigned the new drug and others are assigned an older drug or a sugar pill.
    Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • However, a clinical trial published in 2019 did just that.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In its first pilot project, the mCODE team collaborated with a clinical trial group that is testing a new use of an existing drug to treat breast cancer.
    Jay J. Schnitzer, STAT, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The purpose of a clinical trial is to test an experimental drug, these doctors point out, and not to provide medical care.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • And Vedanta, which is opting for a poop-free approach by growing the bacteria in the lab, rather than sourcing them from donors, plans to begin an advanced-stage clinical trial of its pills this year.
    Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The company was in late-stage clinical trials of a vaccine to prevent lower respiratory tract disease in adults over the age of 60 with RSV.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But clinical trials for the RSV vaccines found rare instances of severe side effects in people who received an influenza vaccine at the same time.
    Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The study suggests that restoring serotonin levels could be a possible treatment for long Covid, but any treatments would need to be tested in clinical trials.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Boundless Bio plans to use the proceeds from its IPO to further develop its cancer therapies and to advance its drugs through clinical trials.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • An early-stage clinical trial tested whether 32 adults with peanut allergies could safely brush their teeth with the toothpaste, which contains trace amounts of peanut protein.
    Katie Mogg, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023

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