Can be stacked, wont be as powerful as either of those though in my opinion. Topical AAs are not going to work as well as oral medications for most people, but I guess we will have to wait and see.
Kintor has started Phase 3 trial in China for Pyrilutamide
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As long as it can be stacked and stop my hairloss, I'm pretty fine with it.
I'm not getting into this with you. You've shown countless times how you will cling to anything that confirms your biases.Marketing based on reality. Anyway hope this won't turn out to be the next big flop.
I'm very cautious with everything coming from China though
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China’s ‘paper mills’ are grinding out fake scientific research at an alarming rate
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Pei Gang is one of China’s top life scientists and chairman of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ research ethics committee. Throughout his career, Pei has shed light on how cells communicate with each other. But in 2019 he was accused of fraud over an experiment he conducted more than two decades...sg.news.yahoo.com
The trials are on-going in the US under the FDA as well, so clearly they deemed the preclinical and phase 1 data from the US trials to be legitimate enough to approve further trials. Some out of context and irrelevant news story that basically says "China bad" isn't going to change that.
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Did you read the article, or just the headline? They weren't able to draw any conclusions on the efficacy of their drug because almost no one ended up getting sick enough from Covid that that they had to go to hospital.
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You're unambiguously correct that it's a failed trial - no decision about efficacy could be made
I don't think it was completely their fault since they couldn't control the endpoints or confounders:
-average age 38 and measuring covid hospitalizations on/off drug?
-everyone getting vaccinated while trial was ongoing?
That being said - why didn't they file to amend or suspend and restart the trial with better endpoints when it was obvious it would fail?
This and the Brazil issue make it seem like Kintor doesn't manage their larger trials very well
Pigeon is right in the essence of what he is trying to say. It's not about the trial being invalid, it's about the fact that the patients who were recruited for the phase 3 trial weren't screened properly. You can't be in the research field and want to be considered a reputable company and be making "mistakes" like that. It could be interpreted that they tried to con their way through the trial by selecting patients who had a better chance of recovery. The 80% share price drop speaks for itself and big money surely knows that too.
I want Kintors treatments to work as much as every optimistic person here, but I believe we should all exercise caution too.
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Yes, I really hope these stories about subjects talking to each other aren't true
An emotional response is one that highlights how you can't be reasoned with and then proceeds to give you straight facts about the trials?
You didn't even bother to educate yourself on what happened with the phase 3 trials before coming on here to say they failed and post a random article about fake Chinese research papers. You're biased, that's it.
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Does pyrilutamide have a 48 hour half life?
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to be fair this was kind of not the intention of proxilutamide which aims to be a prostate cancer drug and not a covid drug, covid came very rapidly, its not like they planned this out 3 years aheas like you normally do in clinical research. still the methology was gwrbage
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I agree with what you're saying - it's really quite an amateurish error and is not a good look for Kintor. But to me it seemed like Pigeon was implying that they produced an ineffective drug, which is simply impossible to tell from their (lack of) results.
Unless the primary outcome is patient self-assessment that doesn't matter. The trichoscope will tell how much hair they grew. The problem with that is if they aren't getting results they'll assume they are in the placebo group and start taking minoxidil.
Don't they sign a contract or something to only take that medication during the time the study is ongoing?
People would never lie. Ever wonder why some of these placebo groups have hair count increases? It's because a few of them are lying. Sometimes it's seasonal, but humans don't have a great deal of seasonal hair growth
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I'm not saying they'd be fooled into thinking they regrew hair when they didn't, I'm saying hearing it works would induce or amplify a placebo effect, meaning an actual, real effect.
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The risks are that people get unblinded, that they influence each other's behaviour or reporting of adverse effects, and that it implies poor study design or management. Placebo effect is just one downstream issue of unblinding
If you talk to another subject and figure out that you're in the placebo group, you may stop complying or even start another treatment without telling researchers.
One person might report that KX gave them weird dreams, and suddenly you have a dozen subjects reporting weird dreams.
Basically all the dumb stuff that happens in the discord groups now becomes possible in a clinical trial, with no upside
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to clarify - data bias won't matter much in this case, since it's a pretty vanilla chemical with a well understood mechanism, good dosing and safety data, and they've already decided to proceed to a multicenter phase III trial on top of a US phase II one
mostly it would be bad in terms of the confidence you could have in a new company being able to run a high quality trial
mostly it would be bad in terms of the confidence you could have in a new company being able to run a high quality trial
I'm not sure how you could placebo yourself into hair growth. I think this is impossible. Positive thinking won't grow hair. Of course it's amatuerish to allow trial subjects to talk to each other, but in the case of a hair loss trial I don't think it's such a big deal aside from side effects.