It points to a 300-patient trial published in the Lancet this year that found kyphoplasty was better than nonsurgical care for relieving spine fracture pain and improving function.

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The drug worked in a midstage trial of 419 IBS patients, reducing pain and improving bowel function.

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An experiment for improving lung function was also washed away.

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Improving a search function sounds complicated, but Costa says there are many ways to do it, some as simple as making the search box highly visible.

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The patient, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has "minimal prospects of improving any neurological function and no meaningful prospect of further recovery", the court was told.

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Guy told me that the demand for high-yield debt is a function of the improving economy, declining returns for the debt market, and the fact that the weakest issuers were effectively shaken out by the last recession.

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Since I had built a shared services model within the global IT function, taking millions of dollars out of cost structure while improving service levels around the world, our CEO thought it would make sense to look for opportunities to utilize that same model in other parts of the business.

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