His firm hopes to convince the government to fund a giant clinical trial of the method on emergency room patients.

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Cutting clinical jobs is just a method of rationing, which would cause waiting lists to increase, and patients would suffer and sometimes die while waiting.

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Professor Kimler's team are using their method to select women for a clinical trial of a breast cancer drug called DFMO.

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