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...Lawyers associated with the case predict Courtney could face a much harsher sentence if prosecutors decide to pursue each patient?s case separately. And even more penalties could come if the government could show that someone died as a direct result of Courtney?s actions...
...Patient Advocates...
...also pioneered remote-control systems in which the rate at which the drug is released can be varied using ultrasound, electric pulses and even magnetic fields. This team has recently developed the prototype of an implantable "pharmacy-on-a-chip" that they hope someday will not only monitor a patient's blood chemistry but also prescribe a carefully measured dose of the proper medicine precisely when it's needed...
Sidransky, a cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is particularly interested in what these fluids reveal about a patient's risk of developing cancer. The best-known of today's cancer-screening tests, the PSA for prostate cancer, is at most 70% accurate in picking up tumors. Sidransky is pioneering a new generation of tests that can detect cancer more accurately and at a much earlier stage in the progress of the disease...
...always be so simple, however. For one thing, some cancers leave bigger footprints than others. In the urine of a patient with bladder cancer, for example, more than half the genetic material could derive from the tumor, making detection relatively straightforward. The sputum of a lung-cancer patient, on the other hand, is much more diverse; less than 1% of its DNA is traceable to cancer. Clearly, other genetic clues will have to be developed, and Sidransky is already tracking down several of them. The challenge, to his delight, never ends...