The first patient had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates, the French Health Ministry said.
In 2007, Timothy Ray Brown became the first patient believed to have recovered from HIV.
So far, it has been just four months since the first patient stopped taking the drug.
In the report published online in the journal Lancet, French scientists said the first patient visited Dubai.
Three years after the first patient got Sutent, the drug has been shown to help patients live longer.
Dr. Scher said the first patient he treated four and a half years ago is still alive and on the drug.
The CF Foundation was the first patient charity to do something radical: pay for drugs to be invented and tested in people.
The first patient, who had been diagnosed with the disease about eight years before she started Gammagard, had trouble walking and talking.
The first patient she helped treat was typical of many - he had no identification and had been found on the street unconscious.
Then in May 2003 Boone became the first patient to try a new cancer drug from a faltering biotech boutique, Ariad Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Mass.
The first patient in the study, a 46-year-old woman, took a common cold remedy for two days on top of her medication for migraine, depression and asthma.
Earlier this week, French officials said the first patient died.
In fact, he was the first patient to undergo the therapy - and his progress since has amazed even those doctors with the most faith in the new technology.
She became the first patient in their makeshift morgue.
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This morning, Geron of Menlo Park, for years a leading company in embryonic stem cell research, announced that the first patient had been dosed in a study of its embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury.
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Within 48 hours of the first stimulation, the patient was able to keep his eyes open, turn his head, and utter words.
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In 1990, he pioneered the first-ever patient navigation program, training people from the community to listen and answer questions after a diagnosis.
And the damning question we have to ask is whether the doctor is set up to meet the needs of the patient, first and foremost, or to maximize revenue.
The first concerns the availability of patient data generated in clinical trials.
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The first is, did the patient want the case to be raised?
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The first ever national patient survey confirms that patients trust and value their GP.
This is the fourth case identified in the UK. The first was a patient flown in from Qatar for treatment.
When the patient first gets the personal heart attack detector, they would take an Electrocardiogram (ECG), which records the rhythm and activity of the heart.
Mr. DICKSON: It asked--the first question asked, is the patient eligible to enroll in Medicaid?
The first step is to sequence the patient's DNA in order to uncover the cancer-causing mutation.
The world's first patient trial is using a drug combination of Thalidomide and chemotherapy to treat small cell lung cancer, the most deadly form of lung cancer.
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"We would have liked to have got more points from the pressure and the possession we had in the first half, but were very patient and the points began to rack up, " he added.
First, the patient is given oral doses of hormones to mildly stimulate her ovaries.
The first link is between patient and observer, who can be anyone but a family member.
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