Clinical trials have demonstrated nicotine ( administered using a dermal patch ) exerts an antidepressant effect in both depressed nonsmokers and smokers, and can be considered for treatment-resistant depression.

* Diabetes, type 1: Clinical trials based on the work of Denise Faustman use BCG to induce production of TNF-α, which can kill the T-cells responsible for type 1 diabetes.

Clinical trials are the study of treatments in humans.

Clinical trials were halted temporarily in 2002, but resumed after regulatory review of the protocol in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany.

Clinical trials of d-methadone, to test its analgesic efficacy against neuropathic pain are in progress.

Clinical trials have shown that consumption of fish oil reduces the number of swollen joints for people with rheumatoid arthritis, provides a beneficial anti-inflammatory effect, and provides a protective effect for occlusive cardiovascular disease, for which people with RA are at risk.

Clinical trials are currently underway in Antwerp, Belgium using VNS for the treatment of tonal tinnitus after a breakthrough study published in early 2011 by researchers at the University of Texas-Dallas showed successful tinnitus suppression in rats when tones were paired with brief pulses of stimulation of the vagus nerve.

Along the same lines, industry-specific news and information portals have appeared, such as the clinical trials specific portal: IFPMA Clinical Trials Portal

Clinical trials have revealed that patients on supplementation regimens containing glutamine have improved nitrogen balances, generation of cysteinyl-leukotrienes from polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes, and improved lymphocyte recovery and intestinal permeability ( in postoperative patients ), in comparison to those that had no glutamine within their dietary regimen, all without any side-effects.

Clinical trials of the Rotarix rotavirus vaccine in South Africa and Malawi, found that the vaccine significantly reduced severe diarrhoea episodes caused by rotavirus, and that the infection was preventable by vaccination.

Clinical trials control for this effect by including a group of subjects that receives a sham treatment.

Clinical trials are often double-blinded so that the researchers also do not know which test subjects are receiving the active or placebo treatment.

Clinical trials have shown that after three brief sessions of Pavlovian response conditioning while awake, and subsequent use of a biofeedback headband during sleep, more than 75 % of bruxism sufferers experience more than a 60 % reduction in nighttime clenching from the first day of biofeedback onward, and more than 50 % of bruxism sufferers experience more than an 80 % reduction in bruxism within the first month.

Following the merger, the company started the PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials to collect journal articles published in any PLoS journal and relating to clinical trials.

Clinical trials have not reported any significant adverse effects from the use of Reiki.

Clinical trials which compare GERD treatments head-to-head provide physicians with critical information.

Category: Clinical trials

Clinical trials by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in June 2005 reported that an 8 week course almost completely eliminated microfilariaemia.

Clinical trials have varying results.

Clinical trials are sets of tests in medical research and drug development that generate safety and efficacy data ( or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions and adverse effects of other treatments ) for health interventions ( e. g., drugs, diagnostics, devices, therapy protocols ).

Clinical trials can vary in size, and can involve a single research entity in one country or many such entities in multiple countries.

Clinical trials often involve patients with specific health conditions who then benefit from receiving otherwise unavailable treatments.

Clinical trials may be required before the national regulatory authority approves marketing of the drug or device, or a new dose of the drug, for use on patients.

Clinical trials involving new drugs are commonly classified into four phases.

Clinical trials are only a small part of the research that goes into developing a new treatment.

Clinical Engineering departments will sometimes hire not just biomedical engineers, but also industrial / systems engineers to help address operations research / optimization, human factors, cost analysis, etc.

In 2007, in honor of Moore's dedication to the Foundation, JDRF created the " Forever Moore " research initiative which will support JDRF's Academic Research and Development and JDRF's Clinical Development Program.

According to the American Music Therapy Association Standards of Clinical Practice assessments should include the “ general categories of psychological, cognitive, communicative, social, and physiological functioning focusing on the client ’ s needs and strengths … and will also determine the client ’ s response to music, music skills, and musical preferences ” The result of the assessment is used to create an individualized music therapy intervention plan.

* Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which will be referred to as the " 2008 Guideline.

In the fall of 2012 the school will offer a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, this will lead to eventual licensure in the state of California through the Board of Behavioral Sciences.

The Rational Clinical Examination Series review found that bilateral effusions, symmetric and asymmetric, are the most common distribution in heart failure ( 60 % of effusions in heart failure will be bilateral ).

Members of the ASA who are not engaged in clinical practice are not required to formally document their CPD and will not be issued with a Certificate of Clinical Practice.

Patient records ( demographic, Socioeconomic, Clinical information ) proper collection, management and use of information within healthcare systems “ will determine the system ’ s effectiveness in detecting health problems, defining priorities, identifying innovative solutions and allocating resources to improve health outcomes.

* Clinical Protocols and Investigator Information-Detailed protocols for proposed clinical studies to assess whether the initial-phase trials will expose the subjects to unnecessary risks.

* The newest APS journal — Clinical Psychological Science ( CPS ) — will launch in 2013 ( with advance articles published online in 2012 ).

Clinical symptoms of ingestion will develop within 12 hours, and may include vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, seizures, and liver failure or hepatotoxicity characterized by icterus, cirrhosis, and ascites.

The Individual Health Record ( an electronic “ bridge ” between GP and urgent care settings ), and the Welsh Clinical Portal ( a clinical “ healthspace ” that will allow health professionals to access records, request results and order tests from a variety of sources and labs ).

The Miami Project ’ s Christine E. Lynn Human Clinical Trials Initiative will take discoveries found to be successful in laboratory studies and fast track them to human studies with the approval of the FDA.

Also, a new Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute has been announced, which will be housed in a new research and education facility.

" HDF represents an alternative treatment option for chronic renal failure, and I am excited that patients in the United States will now have the opportunity to be treated with this important therapy ," said Leonard Stern, M. D., Medical Director at Columbia University Dialysis Center, and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physician and Surgeons.

According to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), benzodiazepines can be used in the immediate management of GAD, if necessary.

The International Society for Clinical Densitometry takes the position that a diagnosis of osteoporosis in men under 50 years of age should not be made on the basis of densitometric criteria alone.

Clinical recovery from postpartum, perimenopause, and postmenopause depression has been shown to be effective after levels of estrogen were stabilized and / or restored.

Psychiatrist Colin Ross disagrees with Piper and Merskey's conclusion that DID cannot be accurately diagnosed, pointing to internal consistency between different structured dissociative disorder interviews ( including the Dissociative Experiences Scale, Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule and Structured Clinical Interview for Dissociative Disorders ) that are in the internal validity range of widely accepted mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and major depressive disorder.

It is less likely to be a side effect in those with pure Clinical Depression aka Unipolar, unless for example tricyclic antidepressants are given in very high doses.

This ECMO Clinical Specialist may be the bedside critical care nurse specifically trained in ECMO patient and circuit management, or the ECMO system may be primarily managed by a registered respiratory therapist, or physicians with training as ECMO clinical specialists.

Clinical diagnosis can be made with the naked eye using the ABCD guideline or by using dermatoscopy.

Clinical data alone may be sufficient for a diagnosis of MS if an individual has suffered separate episodes of neurologic symptoms characteristic of MS.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), UK released updated diabetes recommendations on the 30th May 2008, which recommend that self-monitoring of plasma glucose levels for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes must be integrated into a structured self-management education process.

The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), told The Guardian newspaper that " it is neither true, nor is it anything you could extrapolate from anything we've ever recommended " that Kennedy would be denied treatment by the NHS.

Clinical areas beyond radiology ; cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology and even the laboratory are creating medical images that can be incorporated into PACS.

Clinical effects from ingestion or inhalation of BZ appear after an asymptomatic or latent period that may be as little as 30 minutes, or as long as 20 hours ; the usual range is 0. 5 to 4 hours, with a mean of 2 hours.

Because of the weakness of the evidence and the potential for serious side effects from some drug therapies, the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) 2009 clinical guideline for the treatment and management of BPD recommends: " Drug treatment should not be used specifically for borderline personality disorder or for the individual symptoms or behaviour associated with the disorder " but " drug treatment may be considered in the overall treatment of comorbid conditions ," and suggests " review of the treatment of people with borderline personality disorder who do not have a diagnosed comorbid mental or physical illness and who are currently being prescribed drugs, with the aim of reducing and stopping unnecessary drug treatment.

Clinical practice guidelines generally recommend people to try " lifestyle modification ", including a cholesterol-lowering diet and physical exercise, before statin use is considered ; statins or other pharmacologic agents may then be recommended for those who do not meet their lipid-lowering goals through diet and lifestyle approaches.

Queen Victoria granted her patronage to the Clinical Hospital in Birmingham and allowed it to be styled " The Queen's Hospital ".

Clinical studies have shown carrageenans are the first substances found to be active against common cold viruses ( and not just the symptoms of the cold ).

* The Van Etten Building ( soon to be fully renovated ), home to the now finished Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Center, a space of classrooms and 23 fully equipped exam rooms for the clinical instruction of first and second year medical students.

The National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry ( NACB ) stated that it expected the normal range for adults to be reduced to 0. 4 – 2. 5 µIU / mL, because research had shown that adults with an initially measured TSH level of over 2. 0 µIU / mL had " an increased odds ratio of developing hypothyroidism over the 20 years, especially if thyroid antibodies were elevated ".

Clinical suspicion of Zollinger – Ellison syndrome may be aroused when the above symptoms prove resistant to treatment, when the symptoms are especially suggestive of the syndrome, or endoscopy is suggestive.