Science news articles about 'deficient patients'

... more striking, with increased survival of 7.5 months for the non-clinically deficient patients. The investigators determined that these numbers were independent of performance status (a traditionally ...

... -five percent turned out to be Vitamin D deficient. These findings will be published as a letter in the April 30 ... calcium. Giving vitamin D to severely deficient patients is very unlikely to cause harm ...

... our understanding of the sex life of a microscopic fungus which is a major cause of death in immune deficient patients and also a cause of severe asthma. The discovery of a sexual cycle in the fungal ...

... goal in writing this article," say the researchers, "is to inform doctors firstly that their ALDH2- deficient patients have an increased risk for esophageal cancer if they drink moderate amounts of ...