1.   Even the statutes that protect volunteers in some states do not provide blanket immunity.

2.   Gilead also reported favorable results today from trials of its flu pill, which showed the pill to protect healthy volunteers when they were exposed to the virus.

3.   In some states, laws protect volunteers, at least to some degree.

4.   In turn, Democrats had blocked a bill intended to protect charitable volunteers from lawsuits.

5.   The measures differ in some aspects, but in general they would protect volunteers from lawsuits except in cases of extreme negligence or criminal conduct.

6.   The law might protect the volunteer in the case of negligence, but not for gross negligence.

7.   Williams -- VOLS. President Clinton Thursday signed a bill sponsored by Sen. Paul Coverdell, R-Ga., that will help protect volunteers from lawsuits.

8.   Working with the federal Office of Human Research Protection, the university has agreed to correct deficiencies in how it informs and protects volunteers.