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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If the protein could tear off cholesterol plaque in patients who were already sick, it might cut down on heart attacks.

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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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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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Those uninsured who become too sick to purchase health insurance in the market for the first time, perhaps because they have contracted cancer or heart disease, for example, would be assured of guaranteed coverage through the risk pool.

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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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The final component is a high-risk pool in each state for the uninsured who never get coverage and then become too sick with costly illnesses like cancer or heart disease to buy it.

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