The risk turned up in two studies, both of which gave Revlimid to patients long-term after they had received bone marrow transplants.
"Every single person on our list carries a recognised categorization - so we know the patients with long-term conditions and the seriously-ill patients, " he said.
Met-Mex insists that none of the children in its database of previously exposed patients exhibits long-term effects associated with lead poisoning.
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The hospital will still look after people with minor conditions and some patients with long-term health problems.
The trust said both incidents "were swiftly and safely rectified, with no impact upon the individual patients' long-term health".
In some patients, long-term infection can cause liver cirrhosis, which can prove fatal.
Frazier is convinced nearly everyone, from patients to long-term investors, wants the world's third-largest drugmaker to take big risks.
Drugs firms currently lose billions of dollars in sales from patients on long-term prescriptions who do not take their pills.
The contract changes are also designed to introduce new measures for improving care for patients with long-term chronic conditions and prevent unnecessary emergency admissions to hospital.
In 1993 Vithaldis Shah, a New Jersey doctor, had his license yanked for five years for sickening Lyme patients with long-term antibiotic treatments and receiving a payment from the infusion company.
The government was working productively to "shift the focus" of treatment towards patients' long-term recovery and reintegration into society and a new payments-by-results approach to incentivise recovery outcomes was being piloted in eight areas.
He argued that hospitals have no incentive to report "never events" because they may have to reimburse the cost of the procedure to the NHS as well as paying for the patients' long-term care.
But the RCN says it can see no justification for a decline in nursing numbers at a time of increasing demand for care, with an ageing population, and growing numbers or patients with long-term conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease.
And one way they do that--or claim to--is by having patients get their long-term prescriptions (say for diabetes or cholesterol drugs) by mail.
He said the government had increased "the number of cancer patients who receive long-term unconditional support from the state".
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That drug, which also employs the immune system, astonished researchers with its ability in more than 20% of patients to provide long-term survival in a disease that typically is fatal within months.
"We know as well that there is a small proportion of patients that on long-term treatment are developing complications so that means we need to have new tools for the future, " she said.
Nissen then walked through a series of slides arguing diabetes drugs are approved with almost no long-term data in patients with heart disease--even though, after approval, heart patients get the drugs for a long time.
Some patients react badly to long-term painkiller use, suffering gastric bleeding and liver problems - and there is no guarantee that the benefits to one group of patients would outweigh the risks to another.
In one study with long-term follow-up of 42 patients with category IIF, two eventually developed more complicated cysts that were found to be cancerous.
Quintiles's answer to patients' failing to finish long-term trials is to set up a network of social workers to follow them after they leave the hospital.
The school provides educational for sick and disabled children, some of whom are long-term hospital patients.
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For example, Lewin examined the state's shift to home and community-based care from nursing homes for long-term care patients.
In a long-term extension trial one-quarter of mipomersen-treated patients had an average liver fat fraction greater than 20%.
On the other side are doctors, many of them pain medicine specialists, who believe narcotics can be used safely on a long-term basis by patients with problems such as lower back pain.
The draft report also recognized the need to better coordinate medical and long-term care for dementia patients, as well as improving care transitions for this very vulnerable population.
The company says the study was based on a summary of separate studies, when the proper way to determine the drug's effects is to conduct long-term clinical trials of patients taking Avandia.
Using data from a study that followed more than 1, 700 patients in North America, Europe and Australia long-term after hernia repair, Dr. Heniford identified both preoperative and surgical factors associated with chronic postoperative pain.
In a report first presented to ministers in November 2009, he said patients should be exempt if they have a long-term health condition that will persist for a period of at least six months.
Comparing the anti-obesity drug to treatments for other chronic diseases, Troupin said patients will probably need to continue taking Qsymia long-term, though the new drug is not expected to be widely covered by health insurance plans.
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