In some cases, drug shortages can even force people to stop a course of treatment before it finishes.
She said Mr Weiner wanted the leave of absence so he can be evaluated and work out a course of treatment.
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If you fit the IBS criteria and don't have any red flag signs or symptoms, your doctor may suggest a course of treatment without doing additional testing.
He was introduced to a well-known traditional healer in Jakarta, who prescribed a course of treatment that included getting a massage, sitting on hot clay bricks wrapped in a towel, and drinking a solution made from papaya leaves and temu lawak (a type of root).
Personalized medicine can deliver better information to help patients make an individual choice about the risks and rewards of a particular course of treatment: which medicines will work for him or her, which drugs may pose a danger and whether doses may need to be adjusted.
As people's responses to different foods become better understood, meals could become more like a course of medical treatment than a pleasure.
Even then, Noor says, she remained hopeful that a fresh course of treatment could revive the King.
So I ask Fancy Hands to research a course of home treatment involving homeopathy and herbal medicine.
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Moreover, when the seven who did not respond were given a second course of treatment, six were cured.
Giving a drug less frequently saves doctors and hospitals money, and makes it more likely that patients will get a full course of treatment.
This has huge implications for the health-care industry...and in making that prediction accurately, a hospital can adjust its resources, or even recommend a different course of treatment.
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If an insurance provider makes a decision during the course of treatment that harms a patient, the Fletcher bill would hold the insurer accountable in federal court.
"That's a tough situation where you have to pick which people get the drugs a terrible situation where people are fighting over the drugs and nobody is getting a full" course of treatment, said Mr. Gates.
Patients can rarely find this information before getting elective surgery, or when deciding to commit to a given institution for a long-term course of treatment.
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Bundled payments link the payments that medical providers may receive for helping a patient over the course of treatment (called an episode of care), reducing the occurrence of multiple claims being made (and thus multiple payments).
Over the course of a year, patients with the pain-treatment team had an average of about 10 or 11 meetings or other contacts with their team members, unlike people with regular care.
Despite attending a sex offenders treatment course as part of his previous sentence, he was found to be using internet cafes in Brighton and Hastings to distribute images of child sex abuse.
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Of course, it could be argued that refusal of treatment is often tantamount to a wish to die sooner.
In a course he teaches at Boston University, Astrue teaches students six ways of getting a drug approved when another treatment has received orphan drug status.
"The rapid treatment she received needs to be matched by a seamless course of rehabilitation such as cognitive rehabilitation, " Dr. O'Shanick said.
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During the course of treatment, however, they often develop resistance to a whole class of drugs at once a phenomenon known as multidrug resistance, which makes the cancer hard to treat.
In the other couples, the infected partner waited to start treatment until later in the course of the disease, a common practice in many countries.
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Prescribing pills has become a popular treatment, in part because it is much faster than a course of psychotherapy, which can take months or even years.
In other words, its use construes all three in the way Islam does - as dead prophets - a treatment wholly at odds with the teachings of Christianity which, of course, holds Jesus as the immortal Son of God.
"The traditional treatment for cervical cancer is a radical hysterectomy or radical radiotherapy but that of course takes away all the hope of having a baby and a family, " he said.
Of course, Republicans agree, women should have direct access to a gynaecologist or obstetrician (instead of having to see a primary-care doctor first), and of course patients should have guaranteed access to emergency-room treatment and the right to know all the medical options and appeal against an insurer's decision.
One risk, of course, is that a patient won't have enough drugs or medical expertise to complete the treatment he or she needs once deported to another country.
Immediate drug treatment reduced the likelihood of a repeat seizure in the short term, but over the course of the study both interventions resulted in similar rates of seizure recurrence.
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