clinical trial

April 7, 2016April 8, 2016

Trial Discontinued in Cholesterol Drug Evacetrapib After it Fails to Reduce Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events

A large Phase 3 clinical trial of the cholesterol drug evacetrapib was discontinued after an analysis showed it did not reduce the rates of major adverse cardiovascular events, despite lowering “bad” cholesterol levels and ... Read more

February 10, 2016February 10, 2016

Heart Disease Network Selects Mast Therapeutics’ AIR001 for Evaluation in Clinical Trial

The Heart Failure Clinical Research Network (HFN), a group of prestigious clinical centers located across North America, has selected Mast Therapeutics’ product AIR001 for evaluation in the Phase 2 clinical ... Read more

July 17, 2015July 17, 2015

Sternal Support Device Improves Cardiac Surgery Patients’ Recovery

The cardiothoracic surgery team at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC performed a clinical trial to evaluate the effectivness of a sternal support device in patients with a high-risk for ... Read more

April 6, 2015April 6, 2015

Sternotomy Infection To Be Studied As Primary Outcome For Clinical Trial

A group of researchers at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon in France will be conducting a large, 1000-patient, two-year clinical trial evaluating the prevalence of surgical site infection in patients ... Read more