So, what exactly is the next step, now you have these interim results?

Interim results of the study were announced in April 1994.

The decision was based on interim results from a 15,000-patient clinical trial.

These data were based on the interim results of the first 40 patients treated in an 80 patient study.

We' d reached some sort of interim result, if not a conclusion.

Interim results on 30 patients long term trials were published in 2012.

Defined interim results can be checked at an early stage.

Lets hope that the market has called it right - and Tuesday's interim results, were indeed, the bottom.

In Nov 2010 the 2nd trial also gave poor interim results.

But in schools where compensation was tied to student performance, teachers became eager for the interim results, he said.