Because of security fears the trial has been moved to Tripoli's maximum security al-Hadba prison, which is being protected by armoured cars, barbed wire and machine-gun nests. .
Because each arm of the trial has a maximum of 100 participants, adaptive randomisation better ensures balance between the groups than strict randomisation.
Because the trial had no control group for comparison, the results could have been a placebo effect, they said.
But as to the discovery of notes about the April interview, "there was no way for the judge to impose any remedy, because the trial had already happened and the defendant was convicted," the senior official said.
Even though cameras were at that point generally banned from New York courts, the judge in the case made an exception and allowed Court TV to broadcast it, in part because the trial had been moved to Albany.
Mr. Hunt said he had initially chosen the October date because the trial had been scheduled earlier, but when it was delayed until the fall, he could not change the date without incurring a financial loss.
The company that developed the drug, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals of Burnaby, Canada, and the Wellcome Trust, which sponsored the trial, announced today that they would not enroll any more patients because the trial had reached "a predefined statistical endpoint".
Earlier this week, the Globe reported on a local man with advanced cancer who could not receive an experimental treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Instheutrialcause thadtrial had not yet been entered in ClinicalTrials.gov, the federal trials registry.
Volunteers for this study were drawn from community members who: 1) had expressed interest to participate in future clinical trials, or 2) were prescreened for a previous HIV vaccine phase 1 clinical trial and were not enrolled because the trial had completed enrollment.
