The main treatment is injections of a chemical to cut levels of testosterone - the driving force of many prostate cancers - but it causes side effects.
The main current treatment for the disease is drugs but their success is limited and the side effects can be significant.
The main phenylketonuria treatment is a strict diet with very limited intake of phenylalanine, which is mostly found in foods containing protein.
In the study where it helped patients lose weight, the drug also raised good cholesterol, or high-density lipoprotein (HDL), by 23%, almost as much as Niaspan, the sustained-release niacin drug made by Kos Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: KOSP - news - people ) that is the main currently available treatment for raising HDL. Rimonabont also cut triglycerides, another risk factor for heart disease, by 16%.
The global importance of the event was no longer the main criterion for sensational treatment: it all depended on whether a sufficiently irresistible headline could be teased out of what might be a run-of-the-mill story.
The main advances in prostate cancer treatment are being made in surgery and radiotherapy .
It was also announced that the city's ceremonial lord mayor, councillor Peter Main, was to receive treatment for prostate cancer.
Sipuleucel-T's main drawback is that each treatment has to be handcrafted to the individual receiving it, using dendritic cells from his own body.
The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.
Because LDL cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease, it's the main focus of cholesterol-lowering treatment.
Looking for solutions, they divide treatment for patients into three main categories.
Advances in treatment have been given as the main reason for the unprecedented drop in CHD.
Mr Ouattara visited some of the wounded who were taken to two hospitals in the country's main city and promised that the costs of their medical treatment would be covered by the government.
Gillian said two of the main problems she faced were getting a diagnosis and getting the right treatment.
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Stigma is one of the main reasons why people with mental-health problems don't seek treatment or take their medication.
Merck is pouring tens of millions into an experimental treatment for a new type of Alzheimer's drug meant to limit the main ingredient in the brain-damaging plaques believed to cause the disease.
Its main scientific use at the moment is in clinical trials as a baseline for comparison with another treatment.
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At the main hospital in Quetta, Dr Shamim Gul said only one of the injured was brought there for treatment.
Three main topics will be tackled, namely removal of particulate and colloidal matter within drinking water production and in wastewater treatment, and reduction of colloidal carriers mobilised from waste disposals.
Guests will check in on the main campus, then be ferried up the mountain and ferried back down if they want a spa treatment or round of golf as a break from communing with nature.
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