Sentences with phrase «desperate patients»

But critics worry that such trials too often exploit desperate patients, offering them false hope of restored health while doing little or nothing to advance scientific research.

Efforts to water down regulation in this area may create opportunities for some individuals to prey on the hopes of desperate patients.»

Laboring without that proof, Schmitz, the Georgia patient advocate, and Herman - Giddens, the community health liaison, field call after call from desperate patients whom almost no one else believes.

Are clinicians that offer experimental menopause reversal and three - parent babies providing desperate patients with a last stab at parenthood, or offering false hope?

What use is a well - equipped hospital which turns away desperate patients because the Government has failed to reimburse the cost of treatment supposedly covered by the NHIS?

Deisseroth's technique, known broadly as optogenetics, could bring new hope to his most desperate patients.

The regulatory confusion and the snail's pace of science has left many desperate patients wrestling with excruciating situations.

Rumors of a possible cure sent thousands of desperate patients to Germany — and aroused the curiosity of an English country doctor (and aspiring writer) named Arthur Conan Doyle.

Following the release of the results, his office was deluged with thousands of emails and phone calls from desperate patients and families.

Sifting through the file, Bolte found a hair analysis that the desperate patient had commissioned at an alternative pharmacy: The results showed elevated levels of mercury.

But «in the absence of full clinical testing, these bills will allow snake oil salesmen to sell unproven and scientifically dubious therapies to desperate patients.»

Last week, responding to a clamor from politicians and desperate patients, the congress voted to legalize the production and distribution of synthetic phosphoethanolamine, even though the putative cancer drug has not been clinically tested or registered with the Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency.

These clinics are preying on the hopes of desperate patients, selling what amounts to snake oil.