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We're running a small clinical study at Stanford, where we treat Alzheimer's
patients
with mild disease with a pint of plasma from young volunteers, 20-year-olds, and do this once a week for four weeks, and then we look at their brains with imaging.
So I guess we're all
patients.
That's what we see in the brains of Alzheimer's
patients.
In the case of other diseases,
patients
and their families have led the charge for more research and put pressure on governments, the pharmaceutical industry, scientists and regulators.
But Alzheimer's
patients
are often unable to speak up for themselves.
Today, there are 40 million
patients
like Auguste, who can't create the change they need for themselves.
Some of my
patients
that have been told they are cured of their cancer still develop symptoms of depression."
The drug you give to your
patients
that stops the cancer cells multiplying also stops the newborn neurons being generated in their brain."
So by then, Robert had understood that very likely his
patients
were suffering from depression even after being cured of their cancer, because the cancer drug had stopped newborn neurons from being generated.
We also need to find a way to protect the neurogenesis of Robert's
patients.
OK, there's a lot of runny noses and stubbed toes, but no matter who walks through the door to the ER, we order the same tests, we prescribe the same medication, without ever thinking about the sex or gender of our
patients.
And I can't help but think, as an emergency physician, how many of my
patients
that I've cared for over the years were involved in a motor vehicle accident that possibly could have been prevented if this type of analysis was performed and acted upon 20 years ago when this drug was first released.
We have programs for the doctors, for the nurses, for the students and for the
patients.
This is an investigational technology, but, in clinical trials, we're seeing a 44 to 64 percent decrease in chronic pain
patients.
So for this particular drug, the side effects occur in five percent of the
patients.
And the side effects in that case occur in 50 percent of the
patients.
Stiff legs, long stance, These aren't Parkinsonian movements, Parkinson's
patients
take short, shuffling steps, and the posture's all wrong.
Patients
who suffer degeneration from this region, something called spino-cerebellar ataxia, show a lack of coordination that results in stiff legs, wide stance, and a lumbering walk.
Doctors have to carry liability insurance just in case they make a mistake and hurt their
patients.
Even though Dr. Mitchell was the first to observe
patients
in a state of sleep paralysis, it's so common that nearly every culture throughout time has had some kind of paranormal explanation for it.
Hospitals can no longer treat patients, entire regions without heat or clean water, all ultimately causing tens of thousands civilian deaths.
For example, scientists currently use stem cells to treat
patients
with blood diseases such as leukemia.
Some leukemia
patients
can receive a stem cell transplant.
Embryonic stem cells are created from leftover embryos that are willingly donated by
patients
from fertility clinics.
Traditionally, medical science has been about testing treatments on large groups to determine what would help a majority of
patients.
Now, new treatments that directly stimulate or block certain pain-sensing attention or modulation networks are being developed, along with ways to tailor them to individual patients, using tools like magnetic resonance imaging to map brain pathways.
Partial lobotomies had been used for decades to treat mental
patients
based on the notion that mental functions were strictly localized to corresponding brain areas.
And in 1907, Dr. Duncan McDougall even claimed that the soul had mass, weighing
patients
immediately before and after death in an attempt to prove it.
Allowing patent holders, often private companies, to lock up stretches of the human genome was harming
patients.
Gene patents clearly were a problem and were harming
patients.
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