The trials will examine whether the drug works both in patients with the bad gene and in high-risk patients without the gene.

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So Geoff Koffman, Stephen Young and their team at Guy's Hospital and Guy's Nuffield House in London have been experimenting with the use of ultrasound to examine the wounds of kidney-transplant patients.

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Because the Jefferson team knew GCC was expressed in normal intestinal cells, they decided to examine if it was expressed in the oesophagus or stomach in patients with intestinal metaplasia.

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Nissen says that to properly examine the cardiovascular risk issue, researchers need to specifically study arthritis patients who already have coronary heart disease, or are at a very high risk of getting it soon.

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The team used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to examine brain function in eight patients with serious lung disease.

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