How to Use clinical trial in a Sentence

clinical trial

noun
  • And three large clinical trials since 2007 showed the drug doesn't work.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
  • It’s in the middle of a clinical trial and is due out next year.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Found in the first three phases of the clinical trial process.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 July 2022
  • Next, the team is looking to scale up to a larger clinical trial in the US.
    — Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • And the vaccine makers must make the case to the FDA with clinical trial data.
    — Travis Caldwell, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
  • That clinical trial is the Baby’s First Years trial, the first of its kind.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The Cincinnati Children's part of the clinical trial is the final phase.
    — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The next step is to select wines with both low and high levels of quercetin and test them in a small human clinical trial.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But their hopes were snuffed out in the early clinical trial, the results of which were published this week in the journal eBioMedicine.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This early in the clinical trial process, there are still risks that could appear.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 26 June 2021
  • The funding freeze has resulted in the delay of clinical trials at the NIH.
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The next step is to test it in monkeys, the team says, and if that works then human clinical trials would begin in two or three years’ time.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The team plans to begin a clinical trial next year to test the idea in people with end-stage liver disease.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
  • Ninety study volunteers in Britain were among the first to receive the shots in a clinical trial last year.
    — New York Times, 28 June 2021
  • For those in the transplant field, the approval of clinical trials is a major turning point.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
  • That said, in the clinical trial, toddlers and infants received the third dose up to 20 weeks after the second.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
  • The group of patients in the clinical trial that received the drug had no deaths compared to seven deaths in the group that received placebo.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The same goes for new treatments tested in clinical trials.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The patient who received the new ear was one of the first to have had a successful transplant as part of the clinical trial led by Dr. Bonilla.
    — New York Times, 2 June 2022
  • More than a dozen men in the U.K. are now taking a new hormone-free contraceptive as part of the drug’s first clinical trial.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The platform was put to the test in what the team believes is the largest clinical trial for VR mental health ever conducted.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The transplant was part of a clinical trial that Gill and Nassiri plan to continue, with the hope of adding bladders to the list of transplantable organs.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025
  • The skincare oil was the first ever oil to be used in clinical trials and display signs of improvement for scars and stretch marks, per the brand’s website.
    — Maya Gandara, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But some previous clinical trials found that people lost up to 20% of their body weight while on these GLP-1 drugs.
    — Korin Miller, Flow Space, 4 Dec. 2024
  • For the latter group, Karmo is pushing for Black women to take part in clinical trials.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The study was small (38 people in it had reflux) and not a rigorous clinical trial.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2024
  • That decision means children are able to take the shots outside of a clinical trial.
    — Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • The city government and private donors stepped forward to cover the cost of their first clinical trial.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Another obstacle is the cost to conduct the sort of clinical trials required by the FDA.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • Among her biggest concerns is what happens to patients in clinical trials.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 23 June 2025

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