efficacy
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While the Dalai Lama expressed sorrow and questioned the efficacy of such protests, some scholars criticized him for not trying to stop the practice.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
"This reflects the efficacy of the oversight now explicit to these types of applications."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The drugmaker said Friday that efficacy and safety data generated to date doesn’t support further development of the drug, amlitelimab, in atopic dermatitis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
A group of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted “no” for the first time on reclassifying a peptide, citing safety and efficacy unknowns.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
But questions about the painlessness and efficacy of lethal injection were emerging.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
For young kids, there are now two vaccines available with very similar mechanisms but different doses, dosing intervals and efficacies.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2022
But Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines have efficacies of 95 percent and 94.5 percent, respectively, at preventing moderate to severe disease.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2021
Still, the vaccines, shown in clinical trials to have efficacies of up to 95% against symptomatic disease, have finally given the world the prospect of an escape from COVID-19’s long siege.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 16, 2021
Further tests would be needed to judge how much the 2P mutation contributes to the overall efficacies of the frontrunner vaccines.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 31, 2020
The benignant efficacies of Concealment," cries our Professor, "who shall speak or sing?
From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle
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