Here's the topper: An effective cure may be in sight.

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We know that this disease, which takes our loved ones from us one memory at a time, has few effective treatments and no cure.

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While there's no cure for the disease, effective therapeutic treatments have emerged to help patients with Asperger's maintain independent lives.

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No magic medicine or easy cure is apparent, but perhaps the most effective message that government can send is to hold individuals accountable for their own personal lifestyle decisions.

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Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.

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This appears to make the assault of chemotherapy far more effective, although for late-stage patients, it is far from a miracle cure.

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Because while the drug was taken off the market in the early 1960s as a cure for nausea, it was not long before researchers found it was remarkably effective in treating other conditions.

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