Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these kids, who range in age from five weeks to 15 years, this clinic represents their last hope. "They came in here with zero survival chances," says a physician. But thanks to a new treatment that swaps good cells for bad, the 16 kids here now have at least a fifty-fifty chance of survival...
...removed from the patients, which she thinks is just the way they want it. Kurtzberg picks up the fax from the Russian boy and says, "You can't make those decisions with a letter like this on your desk." Then she adds, "If this kid showed up in my clinic, I wouldn't turn him away...
...biotech company's clot-busting drug, TPA, worked no better, yet cost far more, than the standard clot buster. If TPA was to survive, it had to quantify its benefits to insurers. With a fortune on the line, Genentech turned to Califf. Within two years, Califf and the Cleveland Clinic organized a network that enrolled 41,000 patients. Conclusion: compared with the standard drug, TPA saved more than 2,000 lives a year...
...second floor of the Duke Clinic, Dr. Ralph Snyderman is making rounds. That would be nothing special if he didn't run the place. Snyderman is chancellor of Duke University Medical Center, so for him to be looking in on patients is a bit like Bill Gates debugging code on a Windows program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive...
...Manish Shah is trying to figure out why Thelma Shoe's nose keeps bleeding. At least once or twice a week, the 73-year-old has been getting nosebleeds that last up to an hour. Shoe's no stranger to the clinic; she has emphysema, cirrhosis of the liver (from medication she took for tuberculosis), and has already had heart-bypass surgery...