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A clinical protocol outline of a study randomizing prednimustine v doxorubicin in patients with metastatic breast cancer is presented. The study has just been initiated, and no results are available at the present time. Unique features of this clinical trial are discussed, including the correlation of objective paramet…

A double-blind trial comparing the effect of Permixon (160 mg bd) against placebo in the treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy is described. In both groups a significant improvement in flow rate and subjective assessment of symptoms was seen. There was no significant difference between the results of treatment in e…

"Dermodress" is a new temporary biological dressing (heterograft) composed of a pure neonatal bovine collagen I. The authors present their first trial with this skin substitute. Ten consecutive patients who required skin grafts were included in the pilot test group. The "Dermodress" was tested on their donor sites and…

An open clinical trial was carried out using butantrone ointment in the treatment of 10 patients with psoriasis in order to assess staining and irritation in relation to efficacy. At 0.5% and 1.0% strengths, butantrone produced significant levels of irritation and staining with minimal clinical response and poor patien…

In patients undergoing bilateral Keller's arthroplasty the effect of injecting a long acting local anaesthetic into the pseudoarthrosis immediately after skin closure was compared to placebo into the other side in twenty patients. In a controlled double blind prospective trial, local anaesthetic proved to provide signi…

Fifteen women with moderate to severe premenstrual symptoms, defined and graded according to a recently developed scoring system, took part in a double blind study of the effect of progesterone on premenstrual symptoms. The dosage was 100 mg progesterone twice daily delivered in vaginal pessaries. The women were improv…

The Epilepsy Branch of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke has responded to the need for new, more effective, and less toxic antiepileptic drugs by cooperating with pharmaceutical companies in key areas of development. The ADD Program screens large numbers of compounds for anti…

Eighteen children between 6 and 14 years of age with perennial asthma were studied over two four-week treatment periods. Ipratropium bromide, given in addition to their current treatment, was compared with placebo using a double-blind crossover technique. The period of treatment with ipratropium was associated with a s…

Drug trial with CIBA 1906 was conducted in 50 cases of lepromatous leprosy who were intolerant to dapsone therapy. Drug was tolerated well and lepra reactions were infrequent and mild. Clinical improvement was seen in 72% cases whereas no appreciable change was detected in 28% cases. An average reduction of 0.4 in BI w…

A double-blind cross-over trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of oral theophylline-7-acetic acid (T7AA) in 13 asthmatic patients. Pulmonary function tests showed no difference between T7AA and placebo. No T7AA or theophylline was found in the sera of these patients or of healthy volunteers who took T7AA t…

In 30 patients with severe brain injury a double-blind study was performed. The effectiveness of the aldosterone-antagonist Aldactone pro injectione was examined in therapy of traumatic brain edema. The results indicate elimination of sodium and water from brain cells and white matter. Concomitantly faster improvement…

The analgesic effects of single oral doses of viminol (70 mg), of viminol (70 mg) combined with chlordiazepoxide (10 mg) and of chlordiazepoxide (10 mg) were compared in 41 outpatients with chronic pain mostly due to neoplasms. Alone, or combined with chlordiazepoxide, viminol proved significantly more effective than c…

The effects of Lidocaine and the new local anaesthetic carticaine in spinal anaesthesia were compared in a double blind study in 120 elderly male patients scheduled for small urological procedures. The variables investigated were: analgesia examined by pin prick method, loss of tactile sensation, motor block, and skin…

A specialization of the biased coin clinical trial randomization schemes of Pocock and Simon (1975) and Efron (1971) is proposed which gives guidelines for the coin biasing probabilities of assignment to treatment. The scheme parameterizes the often conflicting goals of random treatment assignment and allocation for st…

Fifteen patients underwent controlled trial with transfer factor for repeated infections and severe asthma. Marked decrease in respiratory infections and striking improvement in asthma resulted. The authors suggest that transfer factor may reconstitute immune function, thus representing a unique approach to severe asth…