efficacy
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Panel member Elizabeth Rebello, a pharmacist and anaesthesiologist, told the committee she had voted no on BPC-157 "because of the lack of efficacy data" and "safety concerns", Reuters news agency reported.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
But some analysts had pointed out amlitelimab’s efficacy didn’t beat Sanofi’s existing treatment Dupixent, the group’s bestselling product.
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
In their report, the staffers also noted that there have been few well-run studies assessing the safety and efficacy of peptides, which are essentially instructors, telling amino-acid chains how to fix or improve certain cells.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
This discipline is of such efficacy that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but it enables men of private station on many occasions to rise to that position.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
To get a little technical, the Pfizer data, in particular, had wide confidence intervals—basically, the efficacies are more like pretty good estimates, than numbers that the scientists are really certain of.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2022
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
That would make it still well above the 50% threshold needed for FDA authorization, but would pale in comparison to the 90-plus efficacies of other COVID-19 vaccines.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 25, 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
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 Lester, J. C.
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