Lacey's recovery is a result of Clinical Pathways, a pioneering approach to treating stroke patients, launched by South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS trust (Secamb) last year.
This week, 20 years after Japan ended the compulsory segregation of people living with leprosy, the families of former patients launched a class action seeking compensation for decades of discrimination simply for being related to people with leprosy.
More than 12,000 people have joined the Anthony Nolan charity's bone marrow register after a mixed-race cancer patient launched a global appeal to find a suitable match for a stem cell transplant.
The first study of this group, the $12 million OPTIMA clinical trial for the evaluation of clinical management strategies for HIV patients, was launched recently.
As NCI director, he pushed studies of tumor genomics to tailor treatments to cancer patients, and launched a "provocative questions" initiative to get researchers to explore mysteries of cancer.
Consequently, a double-blind, sham-surgery controlled, randomized trial with 66 patients was launched.
In October 2004, an individual education program for type 2 diabetes patients was launched in the region.
Of note, being a referral centre, in some cases, the diagnostic work-up of patients were launched in the primary care or at other settings.
Each chapter begins with an encounter between Montross and a patient, then launches into an investigation of medicine and history inspired by that patient's illness.
Cases were selected from the national reportable database by simple random sampling; in Lower Saxony an attempt to interview all case-patients was launched.
