If not treated, nearly all those infected with HIV will develop AIDS, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Those thought to have pneumonia were excluded from the study due to the severity of the disease if not treated promptly.
If not treated with antibiotics, mastoiditis can be deadly.
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If not treated soon after onset of symptoms -- such as fever, chills, diarrhea and shortness of breath -- those infected by malaria can have neurological problems or cognitive problems, or ultimately die.
And 50 countries around the world still report annual outbreaks of cholera to the WHO, a bacterial infection spread via poor sanitation that causes death by dehydration if not treated soon enough.
Lobsters are best cooked just before they are eaten to ensure freshness, taste and texture, so they need to be kept alive and, as Mr Middleton explains, they can get very stressed if not treated well.
Ali's body was also badly burnt and there are fears he could die from septicemia in the next few days if not properly treated.
If you are not treated well, don't give them your business in the first place.
"It is mainly a cosmetic issue but we know that if it is not treated it can get worse, " he told BBC News Online.
Job applicants have long memories, and it may be difficult to acquire that same quality talent later if candidates are not treated well now.
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Eisenmenger Syndrome, a heart and lung condition, can develop in people born with a hole in the heart if it is not treated in infancy.
Regardless, this company, on a stand-alone basis, could change the way cancer, diabetes, and other horrible diseases are treated if not cured.
If pancreatic cancer is not treated, cancer cells can spread into nearby organs or lymph nodes, or, eventually, break away and spread to other parts of the body.
The daughters of those rotifers which had been fed as much as they could eat lived for 9.5 days if treated likewise (not significantly different from their mothers) and 14.4 if put on short commons.
The question is whether we might over time get the banks and bankers the economy needs - sounder, providing credit where it is really needed - if those banks and bankers were treated not as self-destructive infants but as teenagers trying more often than not to do the right thing.
It's possible the virus would not have gained a toehold if the patients had been treated with Tysabri alone.
If taken from the patient being treated, they would not be rejected, so that immuno-suppressants would no longer be needed.
It would be better if fees for ongoing services were treated as running costs and not rolled-up in a one-off charge on shareholders, he says.
But if not for the steely determination of Stern to see his league treated fairly by the media, or as fair as he could demand, few would have covered the WNBA at all back in its inception.
Partridge also notes that new therapies spring up in small pockets of the U.S., and if a therapy is not available in the city where the patient is being treated, it may not be considered a viable option by the oncologist.
So he jumped into the front row of little girls and Nigel Lythgoe, sashayed across the judges' table, taking care not to linger too long on a clearly NOT amused Steven Tyler, and basically treated the performance as if he were a karaoke star.
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It does not make sense to pay for something if it is only going to be treated as a one-sided issue of a two-sided contract.
Do not be re-assured that if your local hospital fails, you can be treated at a nearby "successful" unit.
As an innocent victim, I could not have coped with having my identity banded around the press and being treated as if I asked to be assaulted.
"What we are calling on is for the Scottish government to change housing law so that if you incur 'bedroom tax' arrears that should be treated as an ordinary debt but not allow you to be evicted, " he suggested.
Scientists argue that because these substances have no effect if swallowed, then they should not pose any health risk to humans eating animals whose flesh has been treated in this way.
In this regard, we need to examine existing cohorts of children who years ago were truly infected (or were assumed to be infected) and were treated not within hours of detection of virus but within weeks to months to determine if such cases had similar outcomes to the Mississippi child and can shed light on the timing and intensity of starting therapy.
"I think it's very hard, if not impossible, to change body mechanics, " said Dr. Perry Julien, a podiatrist who has treated Olympic runners and serves as the co-medical director of the world's biggest 10K, the Atlanta Peachtree Road Race.
Thus are cell phones, Blackberrys and Bose headsets treated as if one, though the Bose headsets differ from the first two in that they are not a two-way communications device.
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