All of these patients will need extensive support afterwards and some will need stays in hospital to recover.
"It's those people that are making all of these patients either pain-free or more functional and better, " he said.
The Public Health Agency said it had information on ten of those deaths and all of the patients had underlying health conditions.
The researchers were unable to control for all socio-economic factors and all of the patients in the study had recently suffered a stroke.
All of these patients were given Neupogen if they needed it, but only those receiving chemotherapy every two weeks were given it all the time.
Unfortunately the plastic surgery service in Belfast Health and Social Care Trust does not have enough capacity to treat all of the patients referred into the service and requiring treatment.
Paul Ridker, the Harvard cardiologist who headed up the study, notes that all of these patients should still be taking cholesterol drugs, and that this gene alone probably won't be turned into a diagnostic test.
Data shows there were between 400 and 1, 200 more deaths than would have been expected between 2005 and 2008, although it is impossible to say all of these patients would have survived if they had received better treatment.
All of the patients included in this study were still living in communities (as opposed to nursing homes) in England and Scotland and all had been taking donepezil for about two to three years by the time they enrolled in the trial.
That's good news, especially given some studies showing that one-fifth of all patients go off their medicines because of side effects.
Because rural communities are so small, doctors must often cope with the strain of getting involved in all aspects of their patients' lives.
All of the heart patients in the study had one of two bad gene variants discovered last year by DeCode that are believed to increase levels of inflammation in the arteries (see: " Attacking Heart Attacks").
While the majority of patients categorised as urgent are seen very quickly, half of all cancer patients, whose cases are described as non-urgent can wait much longer.
Ninety-five percent of patients with a BMI greater than 35 had a cancer recurrence compared with 61 percent of all other patients.
Some 60% of all lung cancer patients die within a year of diagnosis, and 85% die within five years.
Avandia wasn't the culprit, but some effect of all the combinations of drugs these patients were taking, including insulin, may have been.
"I keep scratching my head, wondering who's going to take care of all those patients, " Mr. Caton said.
They found that two years on from the commencement of treatment, only 61.6% of all patients were still receiving medication.
It is a relatively ignored subset of the cancer community as the group represents less than 10% of all cancer patients.
Although the study looked at 17 trials, the core analysis only used eight of them, all of which used patients with naturally acquired colds.
Some have taken to swabbing the armpits and groins of all wounded patients to see if they are colonized or infected by the bacteria.
That is what Amgen hopes it has in a drug to treat osteoporosis and maybe stop bone complications in all sorts of cancer patients.
Her paper says nearly half the spending goes on dialysis or transplantation, yet this accounted for only 2% of all patients diagnosed with CKD.
In all 31% of patients were obese - that is with a body mass index of 30 or more - they reported in Preventive Medicine.
Concerns about Ian Paterson were initially raised in December 2011, and over the last year the care plans of all patients thought to have been affected have been reviewed.
One final point: many entrepreneurs (and VCs) would contend that they are focusing their healthcare efforts exclusively on the most important stakeholders of all: patients (or more broadly, consumers).
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And all five of the patients that have enrolled in Ross's study so far -- eventually it will include a few dozen -- have shown significant decreases in anxiety and depression.
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