They’re here!! The UPS guy walked through the gate today with two boxes of Chasing Medical Miracles for me to send copies to friends and the many people who assisted in helping me write the book. The book looks great, if I do say so myself… I also have promotional copies to send to media and others so I can assist my publisher in getting the word out about the book. These copies come 9 days before the book is released to the public. If you have not yet ordered a copy for yourself, check out amazon.com, barnes & noble.com or go to your local bookstore and get your hands on one. If you have questions about where to locate a copy please shoot me an e-mail at alex@alexomeara.com.

Meanwhile, in other news about clinical trials around the world today… 

Biotech Stocks and the ASCO-Effect – Seeking Alpha – New York, NY, USA – Even more impressive, all of these products are either in human clinical trials or under review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) … See all stories on this topic

Affymax Releases Phase 2 Clinical Trial Data – Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Hematide’s ability to increase hemoglobin in a broad spectrum of chronic renal failure patients is the subject of our ongoing Phase 3 clinical trials … See all stories on this topic

Reed’s Focus on Safety Doesn’t Allow Error in Clinical Trials – Orange County Business Journal – Irvine, CA, USA – Paragon, which runs clinical trials for drug makers, medical device makers and biotechnology companies, is expected to generate $44 million in sales this … See all stories on this topic

In Clinical Trials VELCADE ® (Bortezomib) for Injection as a … Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco, CA, USA – (BUSINESS WIRE)–Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company today reported the presentation of results from two clinical trials of VELCADE based combinations … See all stories on this topic

Telik Presents Results at ASCO From ASSIST-5 Trial of TELCYTA in … PR Newswire (press release) – New York, NY, USA – The trial design provided for the enrollment of 244 patients. The trial was interrupted by a clinical hold from June 2007 until October 2007 … See all stories on this topic

Houston scientists report progress on cancer vaccine – Houston Chronicle – United States – Previous vaccines that seemed to provoke good responses in some patients flopped in large clinical trials. None have been approved in the United States … See all stories on this topic

Benefit Of Aspirin For Healthy People Is Uncertain – Science Daily (press release) – USA – Researchers at the Clinical Trial Service Unit at the University of Oxford analysed data from a number of primary and secondary prevention trials that had … See all stories on this topic

Cougar Biotechnology reports Phase II clinical trials of … RTT News – Williamsville, NY, USA – The company presented the results from ongoing phase II clinical trials of Cougar’s investigational drug CB7630 at the 2009 ASCO annual meeting … See all stories on this topic

Progress, but no cure reported at major cancer conference – USA Today – USA – These drugs, which are still in early clinical trials, prevent tumor cells from repairing damage to their DNA. Doctors are excited about the drug, BSI-201 … See all stories on this topic

Standard of Care for Anal Cancer Should Not Be Changed – Medscape – USA – “The standard treatment was established by 3 large clinical trials that were conducted during the 1990s.” Chemoradiotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and … See all stories on this topic