Existing drugs such as Aricept merely improve symptoms temporarily without slowing brain cell death.
Often, doctors turn to older medicines like dobutamine and milrinone to try and improve symptoms.
At least six controlled studies show that cognitive behavior therapy can improve symptoms and lessen disability somewhat.
Studies suggest, however, that these drugs can sometimes make the underlying disease worse, even as they improve symptoms.
However, we do know that replacement with fluids helps to improve symptoms of nausea and a pounding headache.
And yoga, even separate from meditation, has recently been shown to improve symptoms of psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and even schizophrenia.
The drug slightly delays the time it takes tumors to grow on a scan, but has failed to show it can either improve symptoms or help women live longer in various large trials.
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Initially, Medtronic and Genzyme will work to complete an ongoing 300-patient trial in Europe testing whether injecting skeletal myoblasts into damaged areas of the heart during cardiac bypass surgery helps improve symptoms and reduces hospitalizations in heart failure patients.
Or, is there anything I can do on my own to improve my symptoms?
If these symptoms improve after each dose of Xanax, this is the more likely scenario.
By comparison, only 28% of a control group of patients put on a waiting list saw their symptoms improve markedly.
They are often told they have irritable bowel syndrome, but their symptoms improve on a gluten free diet (generally within one month).
In the study of 600 patients presented here today, called REVIVE 2, 33% more patients who received Simdax saw symptoms improve compared to placebo.
The drug has previously been shown to improve jet lag symptoms in a clinical trial, according to results published last year in the Lancet.
Even if anaphylaxis symptoms improve, you or your child will need to remain under medical supervision for a period of time to be sure severe symptoms don't return.
On Monday, the Milton Packer, a cardiologist at the University of Texas, Southwestern, presented data from a 600 patient trial showing that 33% more patients who received Simdax saw their symptoms improve compared to placebo.
If symptoms improve after the first five to 10 minutes (as they often do), you can gradually increase the length and effort of your workout up to about 80 percent to 90 percent of your usual routine.
Abdominal symptoms generally improve within a few weeks of changing to a gluten free diet.
If I decide to take medications, how long will it take for my symptoms to improve?
How soon do you expect my symptoms to improve with treatment?
When mice with depressed levels of DISC1 were treated with this chemical, their symptoms began to improve.
How much will treatment improve my physical signs and symptoms?
Professor Robert Steele, an advisor to the charity Colon Cancer Concern, told BBC News Online any measure which would improve the predicted value of symptoms is to be welcomed.
Treating patients' symptoms as well as their disease might improve, and even save, their lives.
"Rapid access to diagnostic tests, together with much needed increases in GP levels of awareness of symptoms will help to reduce delays in diagnosis and improve the outlook for women with the disease, " she continued.
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