Yet a class of drugs that represents one of the most important recent advances in treatment of the disease only works for one in three patients.
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One Dartmouth report found that one in three cancer patients end up dying in the hospital or intensive care unit, receiving expensive care they may not have wanted.
The treatment did not work in three of the patients, and it was also unlikely to work in patients more than three months after diagnosis of diabetes, said Dr Richard Burt of Northwestern.
In all, hospitals reported three patients in critical condition and three in serious condition.
Researcher Dr Robert Swingler, a consultant neurologist at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, said the study showed that over a 30 month period the drug would only prevent one MS attack in every three patients.
Over the nearly eight-year trial, 14 patients out of 33 involved achieved complete remission from their cancer, and tumours in three of the patients shrank by 50% or more.
John Cappiello, a spokesman for Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut, said three patients were still there Monday -- one person in critical condition and two listed as stable.
John Cappiello, a spokesman at Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut, said three patients were still there Sunday -- one person in critical condition and two listed as stable.
The Tories got responses from 120 trusts, finding one in seven placed patients in bays without three solid walls.
Avastin has now failed to extend the lives of breast cancer patients in three giant trials.
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The Scottish Medical Journal paper was prompted by three cases in which patients came to hospital with wounds sustained when the porcelain lavatories on which they were sitting collapsed.
He said there were 45 beds in three hospitals in the Western Trust occupied by patients who should be in a more appropriate setting such as a nursing home.
In all, they say, there have been three confirmed cases of PML in Tysabri patients, two of them in subjects with multiple sclerosis and one in a subject with Crohn's disease, a gastrointestinal ailment.
The death toll is five - three patients treated in Saudi Arabia and two treated in Jordan.
Three other patients in good condition were treated in the emergency department.
It claims chances of survival are a "postcode lottery" with patients in Herefordshire three times more likely to survive than those in Liverpool.
If the drug hadn't been studied for a full three years in thousands of patients, he says, the result would never have turned up.
They found N-BNP levels were on average three times higher in patients who died during the period of the study than in those who survived.
Benefits of the procedure wear off in most diabetes patients within three to five years, largely because the donor islets can become damaged during transplantation.
One of these, published in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal, showed brain lesions decreased in four of five patients three months into treatment, and rebounded two months after it ended.
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He said there were 45 beds in three hospitals in the Western Trust which were occupied by patients who should be in a more appropriate setting such as a nursing home.
In another study of RAD in breast cancer, three out of of 22 patients had big tumor shrinkage, while the disease stabilized in another 13 for prolonged periods.
In a study presented last month at the annual meeting of the ADA, UT Southwestern researcher Ildiko Lingvay said two types of more aggressive treatments using insulin and drugs started when patients were initially diagnosed effectively preserved the function of beta cells in a study of 58 patients followed for three years.
He and his team then stayed in the country for three months treating patients.
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust: more than 1, 100 patients in the last three years.
West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust, Bury St Edmunds: more than 1, 000 patients in the last three years.
Forty concerns were raised about patients in just over three years with the local safeguarding board run by South Gloucestershire Council.
Results of a Phase 1 study, rcently presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, showed three of five patients in their second or third remissions had longer complete responses with CNDO-109 than with other therapies, says Dr. Markey.
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In 1993, a year before Serevent made its debut, a Glaxo study found 12 asthma deaths among almost 17, 000 patients on Serevent for four months, three times the death rate in an equivalent control group of asthma patients.
The health agency said the three Italian patients were all in stable condition.
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