81.   It recommended that doctors test dyspeptic patients for H. pylori and treat those who are found to be carrying it.

82.   John Kabal, a primary-care physician in Great Falls, Va., treats a lot of patients for hypertension.

83.   Larson, an artist who is also a nurse at the Pioneer Square Clinic, has been painting portraits of her homeless patients for several years.

84.   Leonard said that Abbott had been following some patients for six months and their viruses still were sensitive to the drug.

85.   Levy, the Dallas surgeon, had to turn down a patient for the pig liver procedure, he said, while his study was on hold.

86.   Large, well-endowed hospitals like Sloan-Kettering often consider mammography as an important service that also attracts patients for follow-up care, which insurers cover at higher rates.

87.   Largely financed by venture capital firms, they are generally geared toward helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies recruit patients for their trials.

88.   Louima was discharged from Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he had been a patient for about two months, on Friday night.

89.   Law-enforcement officials said they should also be able to use information from medical records in prosecuting patients for offenses unrelated to health-care fraud.

90.   Meldrum said the company had licensed rights to the angiotensinogen patents and developed a test that screens hypertensive patients for the presence of this mutation.