How to Use clinical trial in a Sentence

clinical trial

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  • And three large clinical trials since 2007 showed the drug doesn't work.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
  • It’s in the middle of a clinical trial and is due out next year.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Found in the first three phases of the clinical trial process.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 July 2022
  • The next step is to select wines with both low and high levels of quercetin and test them in a small human clinical trial.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But their hopes were snuffed out in the early clinical trial, the results of which were published this week in the journal eBioMedicine.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The next step is to test it in monkeys, the team says, and if that works then human clinical trials would begin in two or three years’ time.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The team plans to begin a clinical trial next year to test the idea in people with end-stage liver disease.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • That said, in the clinical trial, toddlers and infants received the third dose up to 20 weeks after the second.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
  • The same goes for new treatments tested in clinical trials.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The patient who received the new ear was one of the first to have had a successful transplant as part of the clinical trial led by Dr. Bonilla.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2022
  • More than a dozen men in the U.K. are now taking a new hormone-free contraceptive as part of the drug’s first clinical trial.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The platform was put to the test in what the team believes is the largest clinical trial for VR mental health ever conducted.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The skincare oil was the first ever oil to be used in clinical trials and display signs of improvement for scars and stretch marks, per the brand’s website.
    — Maya Gandara, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But some previous clinical trials found that people lost up to 20% of their body weight while on these GLP-1 drugs.
    — Korin Miller, Flow Space, 4 Dec. 2024
  • For the latter group, Karmo is pushing for Black women to take part in clinical trials.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The study was small (38 people in it had reflux) and not a rigorous clinical trial.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024
  • That decision means children are able to take the shots outside of a clinical trial.
    — Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • For just ten minutes a day, this device’s clinical trials have shown a reversal of hair loss in just four months.
    — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Of the 54 men who took part in the clinical trial, two continued to need factor IX injections.
    — Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 27 June 2024
  • Now, more than 100 people have received the drug in early clinical trials.
    — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • When discussing the drugs with Slotkin, the Franks learned about the tough realities of research and clinical trial funding.
    — Drew Dawson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2022
  • In a large clinical trial, lecanemab was able to reduce the progression of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
    — Soeren Mattke, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The company also plans to apply for a clinical trial for a human drug in the coming months.
    — Caroline Haskins, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There is also a clinical trial studying the effects of the drug rapamycin on aging.
    — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The glove invention is in the early stages of a clinical trial funded by the Department of Defense.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2024
  • His parents, Otavio and Zina Good, enrolled him in a clinical trial for children aged 6 months through 4 years.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 15 June 2022
  • The Amylyx drug is not a cure for ALS, but has been shown in a clinical trial to slow the progression of the neurological disease.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 11 Sep. 2022
  • In a 21-day clinical trial of Horace’s face scrub, all 20 male participants found their skin to be smoother and softer.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Two years later late-stage clinical trials for the drug, called intepirdine, flopped.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The big picture: Psychedelics are emerging as a promising tool for treating mental health disorders, with over 200 clinical trials on psilocybin underway worldwide.
    — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024

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