First-year teacher Amy Hanson(ph) is heart-sick at the thought she'll be torn away from the students in the small public-relations academy she started.

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But he said that the less-sick outpatient heart failure sufferers in this trial should not be used to draw conclusions about the safety of Natrecor for heart failure inpatients in hospital wards.

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In PROVE-IT, presented two years ago, Lipitor proved better for treating very sick heart patients than Pravachol, from Bristol-Myers Squibb.

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In PROVE-IT, presented two years ago, Lipitor proved better for treating very sick heart patients than Pravachol, from Bristol-Myers Squibb (nasdaq: BMY - news - people ).

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Yet current casting is not so monolithic, and it varies from cable to network, from sick-joke satire to earnest heart-tugger.

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Monday night, a panel convened by the FDA to weigh the data on the controversial diabetes pill agreed by a 20-3 vote that Avandia does increase the risk of heart attacks, particularly for certain high-risk patients like those who are sick enough to need insulin.

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Simdax, which Abbott had licensed from Finland-based Orion Pharmaceuticals, could potentially help doctors provide relief a million-and-a-half times per year as patients suffer from heart failure that makes them extremely sick and short of breath.

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There is still a long way to go before millions of patients take 301012 to prevent heart attacks--although the drug could be on the market to help some exceptionally sick people in just a few years.

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