21.   In fact, he added, he lucked out with the very first patient who had the genes injected into her leg muscle.

22.   In September, she had recovered enough to be among the first patients to try out the ski deck.

23.   In the six years since the first corrective genes were injected into the first patient, gene therapy has exploded.

24.   It is Siloama, the Church of the Healing Spring, which was, Fujinaga tells us, established by the first patients sent to Kalaupapa.

25.   Kavanagh, Kudelka and Edwards began looking for the first patient.

26.   Last July she became the first patient in Seattle to receive treatment for the pktentially fatal disease.

27.   Luckily, it worked on tissues from the first patient.

28.   On Tuesday, Clarke became the first patient to start a South Florida study of a vaccine that doctors hope will shrink tumors and extend lifetimes.

29.   Olufeyi was the first patient signed up for the study and the only one from Seattle.

30.   On Friday, Charlene Olden of Richmond, Calif., became the first patient in the United States to have a reverse tubal ligation via robot.