He hopes to test the medicine in less sick populations who might be impacted even more.
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Most Natrecor sales at one point came from an unapproved use: Hoping to help less sick patients, doctors were giving it in clinics.
Von Hoff says that the next steps for Abraxane in pancreatic cancer could include testing it in less sick patients to see if it can shrink tumors enough to remove them surgically.
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Both were sick, injured and less than half their ideal body weight.
But William Tew, the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who conducted the VEGF-Trap study, cautions that the Avastin study looked at less-sick cancer patients, who had failed fewer drugs.
Dendreon's first study showed efficacy only in less-sick patients.
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.
There have been no clinical trials to assess the effect of higher doses, although two other studies done on less-sick patients might suggest the higher doses are problematic--one in 1998 for patients with cardiac disease and one last year for chronic kidney disease patients.
Could rich countries really bring themselves to suspend aid to dodgy administrations when that might mean less help for sick and hungry children?
There are other ways to get some exercise and reap the benefits - a Dutch study found commuters who cycle take less time off sick.
And, look, I mean, to be perfectly blunt about it, it's important to get as many people as possible involved in this great insurance pool, if you will, including younger, healthier people who may need to go to the hospital, who may get sick, but who are less likely to than people who are 70 or 80 years old, or people who have preexisting conditions.
When you add into their customer base a large number of people who are paying premiums but are less likely to get sick (the young adult demographic), this would be the expected result.
People who do work more hours tend to become sick more often, are more irritable, less productive, and are not focused.
Then again, the ability to not miss out on their favorite sports can keep staff feeling content and less inclined to make that fake sick call.
This aversion is evolutionarily beneficial because they are less likely to eat them and get sick.
Although the population as a whole was no less healthy, the number of long-term sick rose from about 300, 000 in 1992 to more than 750, 000 last year.
Another study found that among veterans, those who were sick were more likely to have a genetic variation that means their bodies are less able to detoxify AChEis.
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Thanks to his caring attitude and unrelenting tenacity (I think he badgered Interpol until they got sick of him) she was a free (though barely alive) woman in less than a year.
Not having to buy health insurance may give some false comfort that this is one less bill you have to pay, but what happens when someone in the family gets very sick?
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