The Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Justice say they have been given assurances at the "highest level" that both men will receive a fair trial and treatment, whatever the outcome of the case.

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"We were delighted to find that patients who get the current state-of-the-art treatment with platelet blockers, medical treatment and stents during procedures had a significant improvement in their outcome, " said Dr. Christopher Cannon, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator for a number of heart-related studies at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

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All of these changes and the concept of outcome based evidence for guiding treatment (that many physicians grumbled about) I am very familiar with.

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Swiss Re argues that competition on price and quality is rare because of a lack of data on the outcome of treatment.

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Such an outcome seems unlikely: no government would stand by and let people be denied health treatment because a primary-care trust got its sums wrong.

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Have a series of complex patients reviewed, analyzed, and then offered a management plan from Watson vs. several cancer experts, then judge which recommendations are more helpful to physicians and patients (based on perceived value by the recipients of those recommendations or, ideally, by treatment outcome).

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