Many desperate patients are expected to flock to Visudyne if it is approved.

Experts said the drug would mainly be used to help some of the most desperate patients, those who have stopped responding to other drugs.

The problem is that the patients, desperate to get pregnant, don't always listen.

During the first weeks after the blast, the center accepted only the most desperate patients.

Yet can we deny desperate patients the procedure if they are informed of new data on risk and choose to take it?

The desperate patient is told he should accept death with dignity, but he won't give up.

Rather, he said, it was a unique case in which the agency took an unusual action to help desperate patients who had no other effective treatment.

The flood of desperate patients can be overwhelming, some scientists find.

To whom can desperate patients turn for advice in a situation where interests conflict?

The samples may also be sold to desperate patients at an exorbitant rate.