61.   But when enterococcus spreads into surgical wounds or the bloodstream of very ill patients with weakened defenses, it can turn deadly.

62.   C.R. Bard Inc. suffered after a medical report suggested a popular medical device used to evaluate the heart could actually hasten the death of critically ill patients.

63.   Chronically ill patients with no other options can be treated with an experimental medication that does not work or that worsens their condition.

64.   Chronically ill patients with no other options can be treated with an experimental medication that does not work or that even worsens their condition.

65.   Contorted and disturbed faces of mentally ill patients stare from the arched windows and doorways of the beautiful old stone buildings of the village.

66.   Countless numbers of terminally ill patients in the United States wage life-and-death battles to gain access to experimental drugs available largely to people in clinical trials.

67.   Cutbacks on Medicare payments for home and hospice care may drive many terminally ill patients with heavy care burdens into despair, he and others warned.

68.   Desperately ill patients do not.

69.   Doctors are beginning to receive more training in palliative medicine and in how to communicate more effectively with terminally ill patients.

70.   Doctors rarely tell terminally ill patients the truth about their condition.