Treatment can last for years, but TB patients aren't infectious for the entire course of treatment.
In some cases, drug shortages can even force people to stop a course of treatment before it finishes.
Moreover, when the seven who did not respond were given a second course of treatment, six were cured.
Neither Smith nor Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Tracy Billingsley would disclose the nature of Gotti's illness or course of treatment.
She said Mr Weiner wanted the leave of absence so he can be evaluated and work out a course of treatment.
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Giving a drug less frequently saves doctors and hospitals money, and makes it more likely that patients will get a full course of treatment.
Patients can rarely find this information before getting elective surgery, or when deciding to commit to a given institution for a long-term course of treatment.
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This has huge implications for the health-care industry...and in making that prediction accurately, a hospital can adjust its resources, or even recommend a different course of treatment.
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If an insurance provider makes a decision during the course of treatment that harms a patient, the Fletcher bill would hold the insurer accountable in federal court.
If you fit the IBS criteria and don't have any red flag signs or symptoms, your doctor may suggest a course of treatment without doing additional testing.
Equally important, such directives will relieve family members of the guilt and angst that can plague them as they try to decide the best course of treatment for their loved ones.
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So far, only a fraction of patients have responded to the treatments, but the benefits have occasionally been dramatic, with some melanoma patients on Yervoy, for instance, surviving several years after one course of treatment.
Bundled payments link the payments that medical providers may receive for helping a patient over the course of treatment (called an episode of care), reducing the occurrence of multiple claims being made (and thus multiple payments).
He was introduced to a well-known traditional healer in Jakarta, who prescribed a course of treatment that included getting a massage, sitting on hot clay bricks wrapped in a towel, and drinking a solution made from papaya leaves and temu lawak (a type of root).
Personalized medicine can deliver better information to help patients make an individual choice about the risks and rewards of a particular course of treatment: which medicines will work for him or her, which drugs may pose a danger and whether doses may need to be adjusted.
So I ask Fancy Hands to research a course of home treatment involving homeopathy and herbal medicine.
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As people's responses to different foods become better understood, meals could become more like a course of medical treatment than a pleasure.
There was the fibrillating heart, of course, treatment for which meant he couldn't race again until last month, when soundly defeated at Kempton by Gold Cup opponent Madison Du Berlais.
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Of course, continued treatment and support will be required to keep things on track.
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Of course, that pits the treatment providers' profits against the best interests of patients.
Of course, it could be argued that refusal of treatment is often tantamount to a wish to die sooner.
But finding new, newer and cheaper, methods of treatment will of course decrease that cost.
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Significantly more patients in the niacin arm stopped their study treatment during the course of the trial (25.4% versus 16.6%).
Over the course of two weeks they picked, out of the thousands of children awaiting treatment, 200 between 3 months and 18 years old.
This message is, of course, being strongly reinforced by the treatment he is doling out to nations in each category.
In the other couples, the infected partner waited to start treatment until later in the course of the disease, a common practice in many countries.
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The Senate investigation into how the SEC handled allegations of insider trading at Pequot Capital began last year, after a former staff investigator at the SEC, Gary Aguirre, said he had been fired for raising questions about the SEC's treatment of him in the course of his work.
Of course, pharmaceutical companies have cropped up as some of the most outspoken advocates for NCD prevention and treatment.
We know that it is of course very difficult for universal access, for treatment for all.
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