And officials from Medtronic and Boston Scientific, as well as many doctors, say more clinical data supporting the test's predictive value is needed for it to have a major effect on everyday medical practice.
When Dr. Smith and other medical reviewers began demanding that manufacturers provide them with more clinical data about the safety of their products, F.D.A. managers deemed the requests excessive.
However, more clinical data is needed to soundly support a significant benefit of such a strategy.
One of the most important foundations of the field, the EPR effect, is challenged by more and more clinical data.
However, more clinical data are needed to define its role as primary therapy for invasive aspergillosis, and its role in combination antifungal therapy.
Until such data are available or other studies emerge to provide more clinical data, EPO remains an attractive but unproven nephroprotective agent.
While this may sound fair, NICE requires even more clinical data from drug companies--increasing cost, time and risk--and then rejects just about every new medicine that comes in front of it.
The unfortunate reality is that it is simply not clear how good a target EGF is, and it won't be until more clinical data is public.
Other AIDS researchers at the session, however, say it is difficult to evaluate Cloyd's new work without seeing published results and more clinical data.
OnabotulinumtoxinA is approved for the prevention of headache in those with chronic migraine (CM); however, more clinical data on the risk-benefit profile for treatment beyond one year is desirable.
So we'll be writing a lot of papers and then we'll be working with the patients to perfect other details of the exoskeleton and to get more clinical data from them.
