Last year, a 10, 000-patient, five-year study of Lipitor, called Treating New Targets, or TNT, showed that the high dose of Lipitor was significantly better at preventing an array of cardiac problems including heart attacks, strokes and surgical procedures than a lower dose (see: " More And More Lipitor").
ORLANDO, FLA. - A 10, 000-patient, five-year study of Pfizer 's Lipitor released today makes an argument for putting heart disease patients on even higher doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs, but left important questions about the benefits of such intense therapy.
The 62-year-old patient, Ian Christie, had cirrhosis of the liver and doctors told him last year that he had only 12 to 18 months to live.
It means that although modern medicine treats the 83 year-old diabetic patient with hypertension similarly to the 45 year-old athlete with hypertension, based on them being grouped together in the same clinical trial, in the future, care will be personalized based on what worked best for millions of similar patients previously.
One woman said Savile abused her when she was a 13-year-old patient at Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.
Gill Randall, 42, died at the scene along with an 88-year-old patient, who has not been named.
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"I have a 91-year-old patient who has been referred to a private clinic in Westmeath, " he said.
Several months earlier, I had performed the same operation on a 66-year-old patient, using an identical stapling device.
Fishman originally coined the term in 2008 while examining a 17-year-old patient.
To slow the heart of the patient, 5-year-old Jacqueline Johnson, the surgical team wrapped her body in cold rubber blankets.
An 88-year-old patient killed when the ambulance he was travelling in hit a tree in Hampshire has been named by police.
In 2003, a seventy-two-year-old patient at the Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, died, fifteen years after receiving a diagnosis of dementia.
But she gives much of the credit for her active life not to her diligence but to a 53-year-old patient advocacy group, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
One 80-year-old patient died after suffering liver problems that may have been caused by Exanta, but the culprit may have been bleeding caused by other drugs.
"If kids don't have lung damage, they might take this and go their whole lives without any symptoms, " says William Elder, a 21-year-old patient in the study.
In a 1999 article in the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesiology, Gail A. Van Norman, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington, reported a case in which a 30-year-old patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead.
Giacino is leading a federally funded five-year, 180-patient study of an antiviral and Parkinson's disease drug called amantadine in minimally conscious and vegetative patients.
The third article in the New England Journal gives an example from Japan of a 28-year-old lung patient who initally responded to the Pfizer drug.
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Both studies missed their main goal, but the more recent one--a three-year, 124-patient study--shows that patients on the drug lived, on average, an extra four months.
Louis University dermatologist Craig Leonardi lost a patient, a 34-year-old father who hanged himself.
Another patient, a 62-year-old executive at a major commercial bank, says growth hormone has boosted his memory and sex drive.
The second patient, a 45-year-old woman, took a similar cold remedy on top of drugs for migraine, depression and obesity.
In Devon, health experts are attempting to contain a flu outbreak by shutting a school attended by Britain's youngest swine flu patient - a 12-year-old girl.
Scott Johnson, a 52-year-old multiple sclerosis patient who served as chief executive of three startups, is influencing the direction of early drug research for his disease.
"Our one-year patient and graft survival rates are among the best in the nation and were a dominant reason in Mr. Jobs's choice of transplant centers, " the statement read.
When the FDA convened an advisory committee in October 2012 to help it decide whether to approve the drug, one patient, a 20-year-old man named Christian Jacobs, described being so terrified by his disease that he often had written goodbye notes to his family before going to bed.
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It funded a two-year, 4, 160-patient clinical trial to try to prove that Pravachol is not inferior to Lipitor.
At Friday's press briefing, data are being presented from a five-year, 8, 000-patient study of Novartis' pill Femara, which is used to keep breast cancer from recurring after chemotherapy and surgery.
"That's the group we struggle with most, " says Dr. Tayloe, who is currently seeing a 37-year old patient with Down syndrome.
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The patient -- a 30-year-old man who lived in the country's Eastern Province -- was admitted to a hospital in the city of Dammam on Wednesday with a high fever, cough and shortness of breath.
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