Receptionists were left to decide which patients to treat, inexperienced doctors were put in charge of critically ill patients and nurses were not trained how to use vital equipment.
The outcome prompteed an independent data monitoring committee recommended patients who are on placebo should be offered Zytiga, which was approved to treat advanced prostate cancer patients who did not benefit from chemo.
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Gayatri Devi, director of New York Memory Services, which treats patients with neurological conditions, has used Gammagard to treat Alzheimer's for about seven years.
Provigil was approved in 1998 to treat narcolepsy, a condition in which patients suffer from constant sleepiness, temporary paralysis and other symptoms brought on by an inability to get adequate sleep.
The company also said the Department of Justice will review how 95 of its hospitals billed Medicare for equipping patients with implantable cardio-defibrillators (ICDs), which are devices used to treat irregular heartbeat, or arrhytmia.
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The conference is also expected to hear from Spanish scientists who will say they have identified drugs used to treat patients receiving a bone marrow transplant or those with breast cancer which can damage the lungs.
The chimps were given SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors), which is a class of anti-depressant similar to Prozac and is used to treat human patients for depression, anxiety disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Thirty-one hospital trusts now have this privileged status, which allows them to keep the surplus they make from treating patients, so that the more efficiently they treat more patients, the more money they have to reinvest.
Scientists believe that patients with this mutant ATM gene may have a more aggressive form of CLL which is more difficult to treat with conventional drugs.
If they have a large pool of elderly patients with complex conditions, or high rates of emergency admissions - both of which are more expensive to treat - it can be hard to keep costs down.
Avastin was approved to treat breast cancer under a process called accelerated approval, which allows cancer drugs to reach patients faster, and over the objections of an FDA advisory committee.
Versicor brought to the table a host of interesting programs early in the research pipeline and an antifungal drug, anidulafungin, which is now being evaluated by the FDA to treat invasive fungal infections that can damage the internal organs of patients with already compromised immune systems.
The momentum is leading medical care providers to integrate end-of-life care and advanced directives into their ACOs, which gather doctors and other caregivers under one umbrella and are paid by Medicare and private insurers to treat groups of patients.
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