"We sponsored the study, and the results are positive.
James W. Gray, executive director of the industry task force that sponsored the study, hailed Monday's decision.
Pfizer, which sponsored the study, has started a more definitive trial aimed at winning approval of the drug, crizotinib.
Metabolife International, the largest maker of the ephedra diet pills, sponsored the study with other companies, and referred all questions about it to the researchers who conducted it.
The Fiscal Policy Institute and the Consortium of Worker Education, a labor-backed group that helps retrain workers, sponsored the study.
"This is keeping them with good vision," said Dr. Frederick Ferris, director of clinical research at the National Eye Institute, which sponsored the study.
GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of rosiglitazone, sponsored the study but did not control the way it was done or interpreted, Dr. Miller said.
Dr. Tardif is a consultant to Pfizer, and one of his co-authors is an employee of CSL Ltd., which sponsored the study.
In an interview, Decide's chief executive, Mike Fridgen, said that even though his company sponsored the study, its results were objective.
"It's quite startling," said Dr. Small, who heads the global seabird program at the British conservation group BirdLife International, which sponsored the study.
Johnson & Johnson, which developed the stent and sponsored the study, said it expected the device to be available in Europe next year and in the United States in 2003.
