How to Use clinical trial in a Sentence

clinical trial

noun
  • 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
  • Next, the team is looking to scale up to a larger clinical trial in the US.
    Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • That clinical trial is the Baby’s First Years trial, the first of its kind.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The Cincinnati Children's part of the clinical trial is the final phase.
    Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 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 funding freeze has resulted in the delay of clinical trials at the NIH.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • For those in the transplant field, the approval of clinical trials is a major turning point.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The city government and private donors stepped forward to cover the cost of their first clinical trial.
    Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 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

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