Word: patients
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...been disappointing. Suramin, highly touted last year, has proved ineffective, if not actually harmful. Eager for any hopeful note, some reporters at the conference seized upon and overplayed a report by Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. Fauci revealed that one of his AIDS patients had regained his health and returned to work after treatment that included a bone-marrow transplant from his identical twin. Whether the patient has been permanently cured remains in doubt, and two other victims who received the same therapy have not improved. Fauci himself pointedly refrained from characterizing the procedure...
With the new procedure, doctors insert a catheter into an artery in the patient's arm or leg. The catheter is pushed through the circulatory system to the heart. When it reaches the diseased valve, a balloon on the tip of the catheter is inflated. Once it's successfully opened the valve, the balloon is deflated and removed...
...presidential race, but he is nonetheless quietly preparing himself for this last and greatest competition --if not in 1988, then in 1992. "Bill has always had a sense of where he wants to go," says his old Princeton roommate Coleman Hicks, now a Washington lawyer, "and he is very patient about getting there...
...President's support, tax reform faced a tortuous path through Congress. When the bill finally made it to the Senate Finance Committee in March, Bradley was a lonely figure, often the sole vote to close loopholes that most Senators wanted to preserve or even enlarge. As ever, Bradley was patient. "The committee had to go through an educational process," he said last week. "You either get lower rates or loopholes, and they wanted both. So before long we were about $100 billion in the hole...
...prospective payment" system of such plans requires enrollees to pay a lump sum in advance. Since the HMOs are going to make no more than this fixed amount, "there is strong incentive to keep the patient healthy, to prevent sickness, and to keep the period of care short," he said...