11.   Academic medical centers like Stanford and UCSF have contributed to explosive growth in medical technologies, giving hope to patients otherwise destined to die.

12.   Academic medical centers play a vital role in American health care that is important even to people who never set foot in them.

13.   Academic centers have lost much of the research enterprise because they were too bureaucratic, unreliable and expensive given their high overhead, Getz said.

14.   Administrators at Kings County have long accused doctors from the academic center of poaching paying and insured patients.

15.   Bush speech left unclear how much cooperation will exist between private holdings of the stem cell lines and academic centers that rely heavily on taxpayer dollars for research.

16.   But as Washington ratchets down the Medicare budget, academic medical centers nationwide are plunging into the red.

17.   But just as integral to the problem as Medicaid is managed care, which academic medical centers in the city also are grappling with.

18.   But right now, the two schools are enchanted by the notion of having a single Jewish and Christian academic center, right in Newton Centre.

19.   But she pointed out that not all HMO patients went to free-standing centers, nor did all fee-for-service patients go to academic centers.

20.   Consumers pay their HMO a fixed premium, whether they are treated at an expensive academic medical center or a less costly community hospital.