11.   Patient advocacy groups like the Lyme Disease Association have been gaining political and financial strength.

12.   Patient advocacy groups hailed the study.

13.   Patient advocacy groups will multiply in nature and in number.

14.   Raffi Babakhanian, who heads the AIDS Treatment Project, a London-based patient advocacy group, said such reports are becoming more common.

15.   Seniors nationwide are facing double-digit price increases in the health insurance they buy to supplement Medicare, according to FamiliesUSA, a patient advocacy group in Washington.

16.   Sigubjorg Armannsdottir, an activist in a multiple sclerosis patient advocacy group, met Stefansson on one of his trips to the Icelandic capital.

17.   The attacks also included a series of misconduct charges lodged by a patient advocacy group against two researchers who studied multiple chemical sensitivity.

18.   The NCI verdict outraged many women, physicians, and patient advocacy groups.

19.   There is also a proposed bill in the state legislature to set such requirements, and it has the support of numerous patient advocacy groups.

20.   They have created large coalitions from scratch, and financed hundreds of existing patient advocacy groups.