efficacy

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"The committee strives to balance the impacts on animals with benefits to people including assessing the safety and efficacy of medicines," he said.

From BBC

“We’re going to need to have all the efficacy of steroids with a clean side effect profile,” said Atlas Venture Partner Bruce Booth.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rather than seek more FDA approvals, it funded studies purportedly proving its efficacy for more common ailments such as anxiety, migraines and chronic nerve pain.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This new therapeutic approach to recovery needs to be moved into carefully designed human clinical trials to determine whether the efficacy seen in animal models translates to human patients," Dr. Pieper explained.

From Science Daily

It remains unclear whether subclade K will reduce the efficacy of this year’s flu shot.

From Los Angeles Times