61.   Until recently, few have questioned who these people are and whether there are safeguards protecting patients against incompetent, abusive, or unscrupulous workers.

62.   Whether by accident or design, hospitals seem to be configured cannily enough to protect patients from a July phenomenon.

63.   While the new proposal keeps that philosophy, it protects patients who are lower on the list but whose need for a liver suddenly becomes urgent.

64.   While consumer advocates welcomed the law, they said more could be done to protect patients.

65.   Yet another bill would update standards to protect patients used in experimental treatments, such as gene therapy.

66.   A spokesman for Bush defended the law, saying the governor was protecting patients.

67.   Abe had denied the allegation, saying he did his best to protect patients.

68.   Abe said he did his best to protect patients.

69.   As a result, the patient is protected from developing disease even though there is an infection of TB, Horwitz said Monday.

70.   One goal of researchers is to identify how patients with these altered genes are protected from the typical rate of HIV progression.