Frazier said Merck would fight any effort to create Vioxx class-action suits, because each patient represents a particular case.

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Researchers who believe in the supplement argue that although studies of it are small, they are reliable because each patient was studied on quercetin and off.

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Because BioMarin's drugs serve small patient populations, each drug is granted orphan status upon approval, which means exclusivity for seven years in the U.S. Revenues from one drug should eventually throw off enough cash to fund further drug development, figures Yun.

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But we need to recognise that the previous way of implementing information systems in the NHS between 1998 and 2002 resulted in only five Trusts getting a high degree of adoption for electronic patient records, because the engineering activity to localised systems to each work group was just economically unviable so that you have to have some degree of standardisation.

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