But, as a Cornell psychiatrist, Richard Friedman, noted in a column in the Times, the meta-analysis was based on just six trials, with a total of seven hundred and eighteen subjects; three of those trials tested Paxil, and three tested imipramine, one of the earliest antidepressants, first used in 1956.
Five small trials tested the effect of music on depression, and none found it useful.
Both trials tested Prochymal as a treatment for graft-versus-host disease, which occurs when immune cells in donated marrow attack the recipient's organs as foreign tissue.
Sadly there was no chance to see Britain's new sprint star, James Dasaolu, who recently shattered the 10-second barrier in the UK trials, tested in such rarefied company after he pulled up minutes before the start after feeling a tight hip flexor in his warm-up.
Three trials tested the antidepressant Paxil (a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, in the same class as Prozac) and three used an older drug, imipramine, in the class known as tricyclics.
As he explained, the trials tested the inactivated vaccine made in 389 children under 10 and in 50 pregnant women.
Last summer two major trials tested vertebroplasty, a procedure to relieve pain from osteoporosis fractures by injecting cement into the back.
Both trials tested antibodies that latch onto β amyloid, a protein that forms sticky masses in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.
The present preliminary trials tested whether undergraduate peer leaders can effectively deliver a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program, which could facilitate broad dissemination of this efficacious intervention.
However, the majority of trials tested a quantity of fluid that was within a narrow fluid intake range (i.e. 1.0 1.05 L kg BM lost−1, n = 13 out of 18).
Recent early phase clinical trials tested a GPC3-specific GC33 mAb and demonstrated that targeting GPC3 is safe, well tolerated and, depending on the density of GPC3 expression on tumor cells, can achieve significant antitumor responses in patients with advanced HCC (Zhu AX et al., 2013).
