Sentences with phrase «desperately ill patients»

The announcement last October that two couples — Peter and Roma Horrell and an anonymous couple from Lothian — had participated in the first paired organ transplantation in the UK, heralds a welcome possible method for desperately ill patients receiving an organ in a transplantation system where demand for organs greatly exceeds the supply.

Some doctors have likened the recoveries of desperately ill patients to those seen with anti-HIV protease inhibitors in the mid-1990s.

As an organization of physicians and scientists who care for desperately ill patients, including those with blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) is supportive of efforts to provide insurance parity for all approved evidence - based cancer treatments.

«However, if problems develop, the bill could provide tools that the Health Department — and some desperately ill patients and their families — will be very grateful to have.»