All patients attended the Rheumatology Clinic at the Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, and were included based on a clinical need for withdrawing SF from knee effusions.
The alleged fraud involves "special" drugs that are prescribed when a clinical need cannot be met by a normal licensed medicine.
Although nearly every developer claimed patients' needs were uppermost, the judges begged to differ, expressing concern that some startups seemed more focused on market share than in catering to a clinical need.
"Of course there is cosmetic surgery carried out on the NHS, but this is only for patients who have a clinical need for it - absolutely not for those who would simply like to have it done".
There is a clinical need to develop additional antimyotonic agents.
There is a clinical need for improved methods to detect and stage prostate cancer.
There is a clinical need for potent opioids that produce little or no respiratory depression.
There is, therefore, a clinical need for more specific RET kinase inhibitors.
There is a clinical need for synthetic scaffolds that will promote bone regeneration.
There is a clinical need for synthetic scaffolds that promote bone regeneration.
For those reasons, the search of alternative cell sources for tissue reconstruction is a clinical need.
