UPS kicked off trials of deliveries of that kind this week, with a pilot flight to drop a small package (containing a "mock" asthma inhaler) to a summer camp located on an island in the Atlantic.
This article reports the development of a rating scale measuring the essential aspects of patients' experiences in MS relapse management, to be used in a trial of delivery of IV steroids.
Earlier this week, Packet Video, a company in San Diego that produces the technology for sending full-motion color video to mobile devices, announced deals with some 35 media and online companies, including Columbia Records, ABCNews.com and the Weather Channel, all of which plan to conduct field trials of the delivery of video over cell phones and other wireless devices.
In a new twist, two Vtesse-affiliated, NIH-funded scientists are proposing their own trials of IV delivery.
Clinical trials of systemic delivery of genes are underway for hemophilia B and α1-antitrypsin deficiency and others are in development.
Hackett et al 57 call for trials of the delivery of psychological stroke interventions by trained health professionals or lay people following hospital discharge.
While no such trial exists, we reviewed 39 intervention trials of immediate delivery versus expectant management for specific conditions (eg, suspected growth restriction, macrosomia, prelabour rupture of the membranes, prolonged pregnancy, high-risk pregnancies, diabetes).
Uptake of therapeutic proteins by perivascular macrophages might elicit a neutralising or damaging immune response (which may have contributed to the lack of efficacy seen in clinical trials of GDNF delivery to the putamen [ 9]).
In this trial, documentation of delivery of the SVP was used as a proxy measure for fidelity to actual treatment delivery.
D.K., C.C., R.H.H., J.R.F.G., A.D. and T.M. all contributed to the trial design, trial delivery, interpretation of analyses and revision of the paper.
