Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patients who feel they are not getting the care they need can always turn to UHS Patient Advocate Kathleen Dias...
According to Coley, patient complaints about physicians' limited knowledge about RSI reflect a gap in the field of medicine in general, not just...
...heady days last week, however, it seemed as if the whole world was a cancer patient and that all humankind had been granted a reprieve. Triggered by a front-page medical news story in the usually reserved New York Times, all anybody was talking about--on the radio, on television, on the Internet, in phone calls to friends and relatives--was the report that a combination of two new drugs could, as the Times put it, "cure cancer in two years...
...story about preliminary data on laboratory animals spiral so completely out of control? The key is Kolata's piece in the Times and the prominent placement her editors gave it. "Within a year," she began, "if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer, with no obvious side effects and no drug resistance--in mice." It was a sentence that couldn't help grabbing readers' attention--despite those critical two words, "in mice"--and holding it throughout the rest of the story...
...cartilage to fungi to the notorious sedative thalidomide--Folkman found one compound after another that exhibited anti-angiogenic properties. But none of them was as effective as he wanted it to be. Then he remembered something that surgeons had often observed: that taking out one big tumor from a patient seems to trigger the growth of lots of smaller ones. Could it be that tumors secrete a substance that inhibits the growth of rival tumors' blood vessels...