Pfizer Pain Drug Trials on Clinical Hold

[Justin]

Pfizer has halted several worldwide clinical trials of tanezumab, its investigational nerve growth factor inhibitor for pain management, at the FDA's request...

Pfizer Pain Drug Trials on Clinical Hold (click here for the full article at MedPage Today)

[Greg]

Pfizer has halted several worldwide clinical trials of tanezumab, its investigational nerve growth factor inhibitor for pain management, at the FDA's request...

Pfizer Pain Drug Trials on Clinical Hold (click here for the full article at MedPage Today)

Huh? I wonder how many of those "small number of reports of tanezumab patients experiencing the worsening of osteoarthritis leading to joint replacement" were actually reported and needed to warrant the suspension of their trials? Or how many compared to the whole? What kind of percentage? What kind of actual numbers? It's nice of them to report this so we can know about it but there leaving me hanging....too many questions

Especially since Pfizer had indicated that "it had seen no safety problem with the drug outside the osteoarthritis study." ....MAKES ME WONDER!

Thanks for posting this article Justin, I'm very interested to read some more about it and start seeing some facts. Do you think the preliminary results from the trial would be up on clinicaltrials.gov by now?