11.   When patients cannot be cured, feelings of guilt and helplessness may prompt the doctor to abandon the patient.

12.   A seven-day treatment of eflornithine can cure a patient even in the late stages of the disease.

13.   And Rifkin said that no patient has been cured by the new therapy.

14.   If it is caught before it spreads, removing the kidney may cure the patient.

15.   Moreover a medical centre, Dr Songyos commented, cannot claim that it can cure a patient completely, particularly in a drugs case.

16.   Silapasak said the team has also found a Thai traditional herb which successfully cures patients who have the HIV virus in synovial fluid.

17.   For these illnesses, research has provided openings that one day would permit doctors to selectively diminish or alter immune reactions, thereby curing the patient.