Put one way, these refunds are no more than a milligram of a cure, when a full ounce of prevention over the last decade might have prevented a ton of pain.
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What's inside the vial has an outside chance of being a miracle cure for a host of diseases.
Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 2% of all cancers diagnosed in the UK, although it is difficult to treat, with a cure rate of about a third.
Meanwhile, at the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida, the family of 8-year-old Sierra Journey Factor were more convinced than ever to take their child across the world to China for a treatment they conceded is not a guarantee of a cure.
Moses Chao, one of the wisest men I know, and a leading NYU neuro-scientist, has been warning me for 2 years about the danger of not finding a cure for Alzheimers, a debilitating disease of the brain that currently affects some 5 million Americans over the age of 65.
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The question of a cure for their lives, of some kind of forgiveness, hovers around their words.
Well, for starters, having healthy retirement and savings accounts can cure a lot of future ills.
As for the larger economic picture, my highly unfashionable view is that quantitative easing is a cure in search of a disease.
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They know that inflation would cure a lot of their troubles.
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The world will increasingly recognise that in the case of pandemics, as with heart disease and cancer, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
But we need to keep in mind, too, that it's only been within the last 30 years or so that we actually can cure a lot of cancers that before were not curable.
The horn of the rhino was traditionally used in Chinese medicines as a cure for a range of ailments from gout to fever and rheumatism.
While cloning is just one part of stem cell research, it has been touted as having enormous potential as a cure for all manner of diseases.
It is that uniquely human trait which seeks to express something that has never been expressed before, whether it is a sculptor seeing a slab of granite as a future statue, a scientist envisioning how a new chemical interaction might cure disease, or an entrepreneur dreaming of a new product in the hands of grateful customers.
The EU and the UK seem to be avoiding a systemic solution to the present financial crisis in favor of a tactical cure.
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Mr Obama repeated the claims of some scientists that embryonic stem cell research could lead to a cure for a whole host of diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes and that it could even help someone who is paralysed to walk again.
By the way, Sir Mervyn made clear he hasn't got a huge amount of confidence that eurozone ministers have yet come up with a plan to cure the disease that underlies all of this, the excessive amounts that the Greek government has borrowed.
Both institutions are in dire need of a cure for creaky old age.
Though these results fall short of a cure, researchers hope that early intervention with these new drugs can give patients a few more years, perhaps many more.
Clinical trials have suggested the combination of the drug and chemotherapy can increase patient's chances of a cure and may live longer than if they received chemotherapy alone.
Increasing the pressure may help but the car companies are trying to cure in a matter of weeks chronic ills that have lingered in some cases for decades.
But if a cure means getting rid of progerin and really affecting the cardiovascular system in a big way so that these children live longer lives, then trials gives us a lot of hope.
Taking a cure from NES controllers of yore, the mouse also packs a so-called "Triple Threat" button, which will let you get off three shots with a single click, or cut those exhausting double-clicking tasks in half.
Participating in the original conversation were a program that uses public health strategies to reduce urban violence ( Cure Violence), a group of young people creating health care tools for mobile devices ( Medic Mobile), and organizations using crisis mapping and SMS messaging to promote peace and facilitate humanitarian relief ( Ushahidi and Sisi ni Amani).
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That's one reason scientists say patients will likely require a combination of therapies to get closer to a cure.
Although some members of the autistic community who did not respond in this (unscientific) survey have expressed a desire for cure, the concepts of cure and prevention bother many autistic people.
Based on these rates of growth, Norton argued that giving the same total dose of chemotherapy over a shorter period of time would boost the cure rate by limiting the time tumors could regrow between treatments.
"It should never have been conceived of as a cure all programme, " he said.
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