One of the recent NIH funded studies showed that acupuncture was twice as effective as conventional therapy for treating low back pain.

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There's a presumption that these are natural remedies and families don't appreciate this and may even attribute the toxic effect to the conventional therapy.

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Abbott shares were down 3.9% in morning trading on mixed results for the heart-failure drug, levosimendan or Simdax, and another drug, Tricor, which was aimed at further reducing heart problems in diabetics on top of conventional therapy.

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In addition to his many papers exploring the basic science of the renin-angiotensin system, Matsubara was the chief investigator of the KYOTO HEART Study, a randomized, open-labeled trial studying the add-on effect of valsartan to conventional therapy in high-risk hypertension.

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Abbott (nyse: ABT - news - people ) shares were down 3.9% in morning trading on mixed results for the heart-failure drug, levosimendan or Simdax, and another drug, Tricor, which was aimed at further reducing heart problems in diabetics on top of conventional therapy.

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Conventional anti-atherosclerosis therapy, which is called angioplasty, also employs a catheter.

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The evolutionary nature of cancer implies, contrary to conventional wisdom, that the essential features of any therapy for the consistent cure or control of cancer must be independent of the particular pathways of tumor cell evolution, and independent of any particular genetic or epigenetic alterations.

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"We worked very hard to identify a group of patients who had reached the limits of conventional treatment - for whom there is currently no effective therapy and therefore are at the greatest risk of death from the condition, " Dr Lipsman said.

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