The professor developed the treatment with Dr John Dingley, consultant anaesthetist at Swansea University's School of Medicine.
Scientists have developed a treatment for the liver disease Hepatitis C that may be far more effective than current drugs.
She sais that without the screening there was a chance that she would have later developed symptoms, had treatment and had the same outlook as she has now - but without the screening she might never have developed symptoms and so avoided treatment and unnecessary anxiety.
Consider, for example, sitagliptin, a DPP-IV inhibitor developed for the treatment of diabetes.
He underwent a treatment developed by an Australian nun named Sister Elizabeth Kenny that consisted of "hot, steamed, woolen cloth over your body" and physical therapy.
The most advanced of these is a treatment being developed by Elan Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth.
He and Dr. William Cassells had developed an experimental cancer treatment that they thought could have an effect on my cancer.
If a treatment is developed, it is thought that it would need to be delivered early, before any permanent damage was done.
More recently a German firm, Boehringer Ingelheim, has developed its own diabetes treatment, linagliptin, with the trade name Tradjenta.
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In addition to improving their environment, the hospital has also developed a successful drug treatment program for these babies, according to pharmacist Terry King.
In the near term, a multiple sclerosis treatment being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) has shown very positive results.
Mary Stutts , a senior director in corporate communications at Genentech, tells the story of one woman, an African-American single mother, who was one of the best responders to Tarceva, the lung cancer treatment Genentech developed with Melville, N.
That may allow pre-emptive treatment to be developed for people whose tumours are not yet malignant.
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He added that a nephew, Chen Kegui, was denied medical treatment when he developed appendicitis while in prison.
Each week seems to bring an announcement of a new drug, device or high-end treatment - with developed-world price tags to match.
Julie Silver, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and expert in rehabilitation medicine, developed STAR after her own treatment for breast cancer, which she says left her too sick to care for her family or return to work.
That point was driven home today by the regulatory approval of Eloxatin, or oxaliplatin, a treatment for colorectal cancer developed by Sanofi-Synthelabo .
In his speech, Hu said food security, infrastructure, and tariff-free and quota-free treatment to least-developed countries have been the focus of the G20 consultations on development this year.
The brightest light on Elan's horizon, however, comes from Antegren, a treatment for multiple sclerosis being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ).
The next big hope for Wyeth's pipeline is a treatment for Alzheimer's being developed with Ireland's Elan Pharmaceuticals.
He said more effective treatment for Parkinson's could be developed if they could understand the effect of the stimulation.
In jail he developed a severe medical condition but was left without treatment, a fact that he meticulously documented in his diary.
Moreover, the clinical algorithms developed by MSKCC may well feature diagnostic studies and treatment recommendations that are not readily executed in the places where decision-making support is most needed.
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Some drugs, such as Gleevec, a treatment for a rare form of leukemia developed by Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ), can actually change the way a disease is treated.
It is also crucial that other less developed countries, particularly those in Latin America, not be victimized by blatant preferential treatment accorded reforming East European countries when the former are, in several cases, in equally desperate financial need and at least as firmly set on a course of painful economic sacrifice.
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And if she developed metastatic cancer, I would find a way to find that money to pay for her treatment, even if it all came out of my pocket.
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There are other Alzheimer's drugs in the pipeline, for instance, as well as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease, Antegren, that is being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ).
Especially since cancer treatment is one of the places where the U.S. shines compared with other developed countries.
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And there are other promising Alzheimer's drugs in the pipeline as well as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and Crohn's disease, called Antegren, that is being developed with Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people).
One example is a treatment of obesity: Inside Takeda laboratories are test animals that are very slim thanks to pills developed based on one of these ligands.
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