Last May, with no more treatment options, he was given a year to live.
The goal is to ensure an accurate diagnosis and lay out all the treatment options.
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Currently, there's no cure for postherpetic neuralgia, but there are treatment options to ease symptoms.
And that may leave patients including members of the military with subpar treatment options.
"We need to be sure that we provide treatment options for patients, " he said.
At its best, comparative-effectiveness research can give doctors and patients additional information on their treatment options.
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As with psychiatric conditions in general, treatment options tend to be either psychotherapeutic or pharmacological.
This state of affairs often leaves those suffering from rare diseases with few treatment options.
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Like everything else in psychiatry, treatment options come in two general flavors: medications and psychotherapy.
When I described additional resources, the service member started to consider other treatment options for his drinking.
The continual efforts of biopharmaceutical researchers in America have brought new and improved treatment options to patients.
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The OFT found that about 500, 000 people a year were given the wrong information about their treatment options.
Online to help me understand the risk v reward of various treatment options.
Potential future uses could include helping patients understand their diagnosis and treatment options.
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Talk with your doctor about other treatment options if this happens to you.
Targeting other parts of the same biological pathway, upstream or downstream of the receptor, could also suggest new treatment options.
"This ruling is a setback for patients that will hinder medical progress for diseases without effective treatment options, " he said.
"There are a lot of treatment options for patients now, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Robert Motzer, who led the study.
But the signal he got from Sara and her family was that they wished to talk only about the next treatment options.
Avastin has shown mixed results in slower growing cancers such as breast cancer or colon cancer, where there are more treatment options.
He set about meticulously researching various treatment options and the survival odds of each one before undergoing a relatively new radiation therapy.
As a result, some women will look for more permanent treatment options.
Frustrated with the lack of treatment options for kids, they meet once a month to come up with ways to fund medical research.
"The value of having access to comprehensive drug resistance testing technologies helped to clarify this patient's best treatment options, " says Dr. David D.
But the president clearly subscribes to the popular notion that the country spends way too much on unproven or overly intense treatment options.
The results of this study should assist orthopedic surgeons, family physicians, internal medicine physicians, physical therapists, and their patients in decision-making regarding treatment options.
She may recommend a pill for a short period, but don't be surprised if she suggests some tests or other non drug treatment options first.
Drug trials offer an extra chance--even if it's a long shot--to patients with cancer or other serious diseases who are dissatisfied with their treatment options.
Her husband, Brad Allen, who was with her at the doctor's office, was better able to focus and ask questions about the best treatment options.
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Treatment options for XDR-TB are limited and can themselves be toxic.
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