efficacy
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"This lets us speak about safety and efficacy with real confidence," Dr. Fleckenstein said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
This suggests petrelintide’s weight-loss efficacy fell by between 15% and 20% for this group compared with nondiabetic obesity patients, for whom Zealand previously reported a 10.7% reduction, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Russell's performance compared with that of Antonelli raises further doubts about the efficacy of the Mercedes upgrade introduced in Malaysia.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Another thing about emphasizing the efficacy of youthful endeavor in changing the world is the riff of the song was written by Roman,” Morello explained.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
In this domain, the prize for efficacy goes to the Cantonese dialect of Chinese, whose brevity grants residents of Hong Kong a rocketing memory span of about 10 digits.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
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
Along these lines, computational studies have shown that ligands with different efficacies modulate the free-energy landscape of the receptor by shifting the conformational equilibrium towards active or inactive conformations depending on their elicited physiological response.
From Nature ● Feb. 13, 2013
In silence and secrecy thought has been working, and the benignant efficacies of concealment speak for themselves.
From Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by J. C. Lester
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