Scientists believe the results suggest that montelukast could be an effective option to current asthma therapies in 6- to 14-year-old patients.
At Bristol Gregg had realized that a protein called the microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) had gone defective in his old patients, and he set out to come up with a drug that blocked it in heart disease patients.
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For all patients, old-fashioned diuretics, or water pills, are the preferred first treatment.
It takes rich and poor, young and old, strapping and debilitated patients.
It has worked well for AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ), which has switched patients from its old ulcer drug, Prilosec, to a new one, Nexium.
In an interview, Beatty said that the doctors want Congress to go back to the old law, which allows patients to buy OTC meds with their FSA, HSAs and HRAs without the intervention of doctors.
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Several said they would be reluctant to take on patients over 65 years old.
Koch, a 55-year-old oncology nurse, had been telling patients that her son had called to say he was coming home soon.
First, the old systems had few incentives to offer patients good care.
Five patients from McNamara's old hospital sat in the front row on opening night, "laughing like drains" at seeing their mischief portrayed on stage.
But the hospitals, some of which were more than a century old, had been losing money and patients, and Cerberus is one of those firms which specialize in turning around distressed businesses.
The hope is to flag borderline cases or high-risk patients not spotted by existing tests--like a lean, 40-year-old nonsmoker with an innate vulnerability to heart attack--and target these patients for drugs or lifestyle changes.
The only good news is that the prognosis for these patients is better than for the old disease.
Patients have been moved from the old building run by Marie Curie Cancer Care on Warwick Road to the new, larger centre on Marsh Lane.
At the multi-million pound Peterborough City Hospital, the duke and duchess met patients including seven-year-old Emma Henson, who suffers from a rare disorder meaning her arteries and veins are entangled.
Many patients getting lots of CT scans are old and have terminal diseases such as advanced cancer.
The patients, a 31-year-old man and 21-year-old woman died in mid-February in the southwestern area of the country.
Shadow health secretary Liam Fox called on Mr Milburn to apologise to patients who had suffered because of the old waiting list policy.
The patients - a 25-year-old woman, a 36-year-old man and a 39-year-old man - were given MRI scans at the Vera Cruz hospital on Monday.
Devi Shetty is India's most celebrated heart surgeon, having performed the country's first neonatal heart surgery on a nine-day-old baby, and numbered Mother Teresa among his patients.
In the autumn of 1954, not long after Pamela Schmidt's surgery, he lost six out of seven cross-circulation patients, including a 7-month-old baby.
Koop, worried that medicine had lost old-fashioned caring and personal relationships between doctors and patients, opened an institute at Dartmouth to teach medical students basic values and ethics.
One of my patients, a beautiful 25-year-old woman, was left with shark bite-sized divots all over her thighs and stomach after undergoing laser liposuction by a family medicine doctor.
The other option would be for hospitals and governments to agree on a community benefit standard that unlike the old one does not depend on taking care of uninsured patients for free.
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That leaves patients seeking a heart-health booster beyond statins with old-fashioned lifestyle methods such as diet and exercise.
The first three patients to be identified are an 87-year-old man and a 27-year-old man from Shanghai, and a 35-year-old housewife from Anhui.
In the wake of his results Roche have begun testing an old class of experimental anxiety drugs called mGluR5 inhibitors in fragile X patients.
In the wake of his results Roche and Novartis have begun testing an old class of experimental anxiety drugs called mGluR5 inhibitors in fragile X patients.
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