31.   In the thalidomide-alone trial, he said, a few patients lived many months longer than expected.

32.   It also significantly increases the average time patients lived with the disease, Schering-Plough said.

33.   Many patients lived hours away, he said, and were in acute pain, making office visits difficult.

34.   Many studies have shown that these patients live longer when they have automatic defibrillators implanted in their hearts.

35.   Most patients live no more than two years.

36.   New drugs allow patients to live longer, but subject them to an increasing range of serious side effects.

37.   Not sure which patients live and which die?

38.   One patient has lived more than a decade with both HIV and a new liver.

39.   Ordinarily, a drug company seeking approval for a new product must show that it enables patients to live longer or reduces their symptoms.

40.   Patients generally live five to six years after diagnosis.