efficacy
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"This reflects the efficacy of the oversight now explicit to these types of applications."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
Panel member Elizabeth Rebello, a pharmacist and anesthesiologist, told the committee she had voted no "because of the lack of efficacy data" and "safety concerns."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
But there’ll always be some people who will do extremely well, and they will loudly swear to the efficacy of whatever system they’ve used.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
For the next pandemic, if we have certain vaccines with starting efficacies, we can predict the minimum proportion we need to vaccinate to achieve vaccine-induced herd immunity.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
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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