1.   At the University of California-San Francisco and other institutions, scientists such as the late Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton injected unwitting patients with plutonium.

2.   Both are trying to cure heart disease by injecting patients with genes designed to strengthen their hearts.

3.   According to her indictment, she deliberately injected patients with lethal doses of medicine and other substances at three hospitals in The Hague.

4.   But in gene therapy, scientists inject the patient with a gene that is supposed to teach the body to produce the needed chemical from within.

5.   Doctors hope to inject patients with stem cells, then signal them to grow into new heart tissue.

6.   First, the patient is injected with a chemotherapy drug called Photofrin, sold by New Jersey-based Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Corp.

7.   Patients are injected with Photofrin, and several hours later doctors thread fiber-optic cables into the esophagus and shine bright light onto the tumor.

8.   Radiologists inject a patient with a glucoselike substance tagged with a radioactive tracer.

9.   Some elderly patients were injected with live cancer cells to see how their immune systems would react.

10.   The authorities said they believed that Saldivar injected his patients with Pavulon or succinylcholine chloride to kill them.