clinical trial

American  

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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Example Sentences

The FDA official also called for different endpoints in clinical trials for vaccines.

From MarketWatch

The funding freeze upended the university’s business model, suspending hundreds of scientific projects that included clinical trials with patients on lifesaving medicine and raising questions over how the institution could sustain that work.

From The Wall Street Journal

He’s never run a clinical trial, treated a patient or published academic research.

From Salon

On Nov. 9, the drugmaker announced that a heart pill it is developing cut levels of harmful LDL cholesterol in clinical trials.

From Barron's

The most common treatments involve bone marrow transplants, chemotherapy and clinical trials.

From BBC