The drug also helped to cut levels of "bad" cholesterol in some patients.
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.
Friends of the Earth said it had studied reports produced on air pollution in Scotland's four major cities last year and found most would fail to reach tough targets due to take effect in 2005 to cut levels of nitrogen dioxide, which is emitted by cars.
And half the firms surveyed plan to cut staffing levels in the next few months.
Now its economy is booming and crime has been cut to levels that once seemed unimaginable.
What governments can, and must, do, is make public their plans to cut debt levels, it argued.
As with many other foods, some bread manufacturers are starting to cut salt levels and to make a virtue of this for marketing purposes.
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What I want to concentrate on is what we achieve ... what we really need the probation service for is to cut the levels of reoffending.
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Conditions in the global economy have changed dramatically since then, however, forcing oil producers' group Opec to cut output levels in an effort to stabilise prices.
Aiming to cut the levels of yuan in circulation, the People's Bank of China is increasing the banking reserve ratio by half a percentage point to 13.5%.
In patients who had high cholesterol levels despite taking 20 milligrams or more a day of Lipitor, from Pfizer, or Zocor, from Merck, 301012 cut LDL levels in half.
It insisted the measures were needed to cut high levels of sickness absence, which it calculated have come down from 22 days per staff member to 12 days since the new rules were brought in.
In patients who had high cholesterol levels despite taking 20 milligrams or more a day of Lipitor, from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), or Zocor, from Merck, 301012 cut LDL levels in half.
Meanwhile, in a survey conducted by the Federation of Master Builders, a third of small to medium-sized building firms said they feared they would have to cut staffing levels this year in the face of a continuing decline in the industry.
But Senator Ferguson said trying to cut carbon dioxide levels was a waste of time.
Moreover, he notes that bad economic times have followed when those rates are cut to low levels.
The owner of Mr Kipling and Oxo is selling off a number of brands to cut its debt levels.
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Personal income-tax rates are being cut at all levels, but by more for low earners, to encourage people to work.
Trading in the futures markets shows expectations of another 25- to 50-point cut then to levels not seen in 50 years.
This is the first time that the PBOC has cut bank reserve levels in three years, signaling a decisive shift in monetary policy.
Such a recommendation implies a significant cut in current levels of spending, though it is suggested the change should be implemented in the medium term.
This was the first time that the PBOC had cut bank reserve levels in three years, the first signal that monetary policy in China is changing.
In early stage trials in healthy volunteers, 301012 cut bad cholesterol levels in half--and the injectible drug might only need to be given a few times a year.
In midstage trials, the results of which were presented Sunday night at the annual meeting of American Heart Association, the medicine cut patients' levels of LDL, the bad cholesterol, by 60%.
"If bakers cut their salt levels to those of the lowest salt producers already on the market, they would effectively save the lives of 7, 000 people each year in this country, " he said.
The Italian economy - the eurozone's third largest - has contracted for the past four quarters as the government has implemented a series of drastic spending cuts designed to cut its debt levels, which currently stand at more than the country's annual economic output.
The U.S. Navy is cut back to the levels before World War I.
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It would cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and then keep going.
But he is absolutely willing to sign a appropriately paid-for one-year extension of the payroll tax cut at its current levels.
All of these TVs also include FilterBright2 Plus technology, and anti-reflective film to improve contrast levels and cut down on reflections.
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