Article: Advanced Life Meets Endpoint In First Pivotal Trial Of Antibiotic.

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The first of two Phase III pivotal trials of cethromycin from Advanced Life Sciences Holdings Inc. in community-acquired pneumonia met its primary endpoint of non-inferior cure rates compared to an approved antibiotic.

The endpoint was met despite the comparator agent, Abbott Laboratories' macrolide antibiotic Biaxin (clarithromycin), demonstrating a clinical cure rate of 95.9 percent, which Advanced Life officials said was the highest ever reported with that drug. Historically, Biaxin's clinical cure rate is between 89 percent and 91 percent, said Advanced Life President John Flavin.

The clinical rate for cethromycin, a ketolide ...

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