The only current treatments for osteoarthritis are painkillers and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, which are also given to dull pain.
The method also overcomes limitations posed by current treatments in which radiation may damage portions of healthy brain tissue.
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For most, the current treatments are far from satisfying, but they do give us hope that better drugs can be developed.
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"If validated in further clinical trials, this would represent a substantially more effective therapy than current treatments for Alzheimer's disease, " he said.
Early studies hint the drug may be more effective than current treatments.
Lead researcher Professor Santa Jeremy Ono said current treatments for severe eye allergy were either ineffective, or have side effects, such as glaucoma and cataract formation.
"This new treatment is likely to be better, although current treatments are not curative, and it is unlikely that orexin would be curative, " he told BBC News Online.
Dame Sally said no new classes of antibiotics had been introduced since 1987 whereas new pathogens were emerging every year, and existing bugs were developing resistance to current treatments.
Under all current treatments, including bone marrow transplants, all patients relapse, notes Dr. Ken Anderson, director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr Adrian Williams, director of Sleep Disorder Centre at of Lane-Fox Unit, St Thomas's Hospital London said the new study is significant and could provide a better alternative to current treatments, which are mostly amphetamine based.
Niacin has been used for many years in the belief that it would help patients and prevent heart attacks and stroke, but we now know that its adverse side effects outweigh the benefits when used with current treatments.
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, compares that with 8% of patients taking Aventis' Taxotere, one of the current preferred treatments.
Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, compares that with 8% of patients taking Aventis' Taxotere, one of the current preferred treatments.
In clinical trials, it cured more than 60% of previously untreated patients when added to the current standard treatments, compared to 40% who got the standard treatments alone.
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However, Xeljanz is priced slightly less than current RA drug treatments, and it may have significant advantages over other marketed drugs.
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Current ultraviolet light laser treatments can kill micro-organisms - but cannot be used in humans as they would also damage cells in the body.
The drug, which was invented by Japan's Otsuka Pharmaceuticals and co-marketed by New York City-based Bristol (nyse: BMY - news - people ), has much less severe side effects than current anti-psychotic treatments.
Thirty-one percent of telaprevir patients who had gotten no benefit at all from previous treatments with the current hepatitis C regimen, a combination of interferon and antiviral drug ribavirin, had SVRs.
The Center for Security Policy believes that this is no time for the State Department to be imposing a party line on either its public or its confidential treatments of the current state of affairs in the Soviet Union.
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But it said a chronic shortage of cancer doctors and the rising cost of treatments meant its predictions might have to be reviewed unless current levels of government financial support are maintained.
The new treatments also are expected to be shorter in duration than the current standard.
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The current level of drug research and development offers hope for a wealth of new treatments that can mend and extend the lives of millions of people.
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The current September campaign is part of a bigger push to find a cure and better treatments for the disease.
But current statistics on survival may be outdated, since they reflect the surgeries and other treatments patients had in the past.
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In a statement the company said in the "current environment of capital scarcity and uncertain economic conditions" it had decided to concentrate instead on developing cancer treatments.
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