21.   A trial is a study in which a new drug is tested against an existing drug in varying numbers of patients.

22.   Adult males who tested the drug had no such side effects, and it was never tested in children or in women.

23.   After all, he went to Stanford not to test drugs, but to study writing.

24.   Agouron has already started testing the drug in the U.S. and says the drug can help defend the body against the virus that causes AIDS.

25.   Bristol-Myers Squibb is testing a drug to reverse sun damage in skin.

26.   British Biotech, which was first to have the drug in human trials, plans to test the drug on nine different kinds of cancer.

27.   But detractors point to the Virodene mess and say Dr. Zuma has deliberately weakened the Medicines Control Council, which tests drugs for safety.

28.   But it is no longer testing the drug against viral meningitis.

29.   But it would be unethical to give healthy volunteers anthrax in order to test a drug.

30.   But no one had thought to test such drugs in multiple sclerosis.