Though there is a certain logic in using anti-inflammatory drugs against Alzheimer's disease (inflammation of the tissue around the plaques is one of the symptoms), no specific trial of the sort about to be carried out with vitamin E has yet been completed.
Although there have been no specific trials of NSAIDs in patients with PsA, these agents are indicated in mild disease.
Apart from age-related biological differences, this may also have been influenced by the lack of specific trials in the elderly population, favouring a nihilistic attitude to treatment (de Magalhães, 2013).
Paired t-tests were applied to comparisons between 2 specific trials within the same group of cells.
Responses were seen mainly in STS patients, and this prompted multiple sarcoma-specific trials; some of the published results are tabulated below (Table 1).
A recent economic evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of taxanes in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer reported a cost per QALY for taxane compared with nontaxane-containing chemotherapy of £12,000 £43,000, depending on the taxane under consideration and the specific trial used as the basis of the analysis.
No specific trials have investigated the efficacy of NOACs in relation to genetic or acquired thrombophilia, even though there is currently no evidence that the presence of a prothrombotic state impacts on either the safety or the efficacy of the NOAC.
Nevertheless, before laser can be safely employed on non-intubated animals under volatile anesthesia, specific trials focusing on the real efficacy of face masks in preventing gas leakage are necessary.
And then, three years ago, Boston Ballet dealt with a more specific trial: the reduction of its main company by nearly 20 percent, to 41 dancers from 50.
Although our predictions are not of the specific trials and so differ in many ways, the largest single reason for the difference is that we have predicted all episodes whereas the trial data refers to treated episodes only.
