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This was about scientific freedom, medical progress, the rights of
patients.
We set out to identify a gene-patent holder that was vigorously enforcing its patents and then to organize a broad coalition of plaintiffs and experts that could tell the court about all the ways that these patents were harming
patients
and innovation.
And it helps to ensure that
patients
like Abigail, Kathleen and Eileen have access to the tests that they need.
The good news is there are effective treatments for OCD, including medications, which increase serotonin in the brain by limiting its reabsorption by brain cells, behavioral therapy that gradually desensitizes
patients
to their anxieties, and in some cases, electroconvulsive therapy, or surgery, when OCD doesn't respond to other forms of treatment.
So in the early part of the epidemic from Kenema, we'd had 106 clinical records from patients, and we once again made that publicly available to the world.
And in our own lab, we could show that you could take those 106 records, we could train computers to predict the prognosis for Ebola
patients
to near 100 percent accuracy.
But their habit of treating
patients
by race lags far behind.
Wouldn't it be far more accurate and evidence-based to determine the muscle mass of individual
patients
just by looking at them?
Doctors also tell me race is just one of many factors they take into account, but there are numerous medical tests, like the GFR, that use race categorically to treat black, white, Asian
patients
differently just because of their race.
Race medicine also leaves
patients
of color especially vulnerable to harmful biases and stereotypes.
Black and Latino
patients
are twice as likely to receive no pain medication as whites for the same painful long bone fractures because of stereotypes that black and brown people feel less pain, exaggerate their pain, and are predisposed to drug addiction.
It's a pill called BiDil to treat heart failure in self-identified African-American
patients.
A cardiologist developed this drug without regard to race or genetics, but it became convenient for commercial reasons to market the drug to black
patients.
But think about the dangerous message it sent, that black people's bodies are so substandard, a drug tested in them is not guaranteed to work in other
patients.
For one thing, black
patients
were understandably wary of using a drug just for black people.
The problem with race medicine extends far beyond misdiagnosing
patients.
Would you imagine with me, just a moment: What would happen if doctors stopped treating
patients
by race?
And the more
patients
seek treatment, the more scientists will learn about depression, and the better the treatments will get.
And after a major injury of your central nervous system, the
patients
often remain with a severe handicap.
It's really an amazing technology in that it has improved the destiny of
patients
with Parkinson's disease, with severe tremor, with severe pain.
I often had to take care of
patients
with head trauma.
Patients
are completely plegic, and then they try to recover due to a brain plasticity mechanism, they recover to a certain extent, exactly the same for the monkey.
And then, you have to perform this kind of study in a small group of
patients.
So it takes, already, a long time to select the patients, do the treatment and evaluate if it's useful to do this kind of treatment.
But before you make your decision, remember that not all
patients
arrive at the hospital with the same level of health.
And if we divide each hospital's last 1000
patients
into those who arrived in good health and those who arrived in poor health, the picture starts to look very different.
Hospital A had only 100
patients
who arrived in poor health, of which 30 survived.
So Hospital B is the better choice for
patients
who arrive at hospital in poor health, with a survival rate of 52.5%.
So how can Hospital A have a better overall survival rate if Hospital B has better survival rates for
patients
in each of the two groups?
Here, the hidden factor is the relative proportion of
patients
who arrive in good or poor health.
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