Word: patients
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...destroy leftover neurotransmitters that are floating around loose after they have done their work. By inhibiting the action of monoamine oxidase, drugs like iproniazid let neurotransmitters circulate and keep stimulating neurons longer than they normally would. An extended soaking in serotonin and norepinephrine evidently made for a happier patient, and MAO inhibitors became the first antidepressants...
...parents covinced us that the most you can do is give to others." --Dr. Carola EisenbergPhoto Courtesy Physicians for Human RightsHUMANITARIAN MEDICINE: CAROLA EISENBERG (center) aids a patient on a trip to El Salvador...
...sort of became the prostrate pinup boy of Washington, D.C. I didn't talk about politics; I talked about prostrates." --Prostrate cancer patient and former United States Senator Bob Dole (R,-KS) discussing his effort to alert men to the dangers of his disease on "Larry King Live...
While a white patient has an 81 percent chance of finding a marrow match, an American Indian has a 75 percent, an Hispanic a 64 percent chance, an Asian a 55 percent chance and an African-American only a 47 percent chance of a match, Belvin said...
Many senior career switchers are out to change the world as well. Merlin Petzold, 63, a retired General Motors engineer in Cascade Township, Mich., builds user-friendly telephones for people with disabilities. Inspired by his wife Nadine, a multiple-sclerosis patient, Petzold fitted out a standard phone with straws and tubes that allow users to puff for a dial tone and sip in order to dial a preset number, such as 911. Petzold's nonprofit company, Envirotrol, builds as many as 70 such phones a year for customers in the U.S. and as far away as Peru and Saudi Arabia...