71.   It had previously been shown to help patients with such symptoms.

72.   Jerry Lindahl, of Roseville, Minn., left, and Conrad, help a patient following her surgery in Zhangye, a town in Gansu.

73.   John Doorley, a Merck spokesman, said pharmacists would suggest a switch only when it would help the patient.

74.   Kurth said he himself has done four pallidotomies since then but the patients were not helped.

75.   Knowledge gained from animal studies of spinal cord learning is already helping some patients with debilitating spinal cord injuries.

76.   Last spring, when results from the studies of the procedure were finally announced, they failed to provide solid evidence that it was helping patients.

77.   Limiting salt may also help some patients.

78.   Many doctors are ill-prepared to deal with death or to help patients and their families face the end of life, it said.

79.   Most American doctors are not well prepared to help patients and their families make painful decisions about dying.

80.   Members of the oncology network will begin offering the tests within the next month and expect that its patients will be helped.