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clinical trial

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  1. the scientific investigation of a new treatment that has shown some benefit in animal or laboratory studies, but that has not yet been proven effective in humans.


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A clinical trial led by the University of Michigan has now supplied those data.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

A small clinical trial suggests that limiting food intake to fewer hours each day could provide modest cognitive benefits for older women, beyond those associated with weight loss alone.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Earlier this year, the FDA cleared the vaccine for a Phase 2 clinical trial in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

The substances that were under review are among those that former president Joe Biden's administration restricted from compounding, notably over a lack of human clinical trial data.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Their fifty-three patients were, in effect, a clinical trial, and an astonishingly successful one.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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