This is one of the first to compare placebos to no treatment at all.
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There is no treatment for measles and in very rare cases it can be fatal.
In part because there's no treatment, the number of people afflicted is hard to estimate.
But there's no treatment at all, so it's something you've got to accept, and get on with it.
The abdominal tumor was surgically removed, but doctors at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen had no treatment for his other tumors.
And remember that no treatment works exactly the same way in every patient.
The market could be particularly lucrative because there is no treatment available for these patients, and because the disease is rare.
Instead, her claim is that the best treatment her child's physician has to offer is worse than no treatment at all.
There is no treatment for dry AMD, but there are a number of treatments for the wet form of the condition.
The WHO points out that in the developing world nearly 95m people with depression and more than 25m with epilepsy receive no treatment or care.
This leaves us with a grim prognosis and no treatment plan.
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That is precisely the point of using it in trials: researchers have known for years that comparing treatment against no treatment at all will give a misleading result.
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More than a century after Alois Alzheimer first identified the disease that bears his name, it is still ultimately fatal, and no treatment is available to slow or stop its progression.
HIV-infected workers who get no treatment typically take 55 days of sick leave in their final two years at work, says Sanlam in a newly finished survey of South African firms.
"It is a scandal that the only licensed drug proven to significantly prolong the lives of people with this devastating disease has been rejected, leaving them with no treatment options, " he said.
Six monkeys were treated continuously with antiretroviral drugs, a second group was given no treatment and the third group was treated with the drugs on a three weeks on, three weeks off cycle.
E. television show the plight of patients who have rare diseases with no treatment, Mr. Klugman focused a spotlight on the need for incentives to encourage the development of medical therapies for small patient populations.
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In January 2011, when my 9-month-old son, Ronan, was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an always-fatal illness with no treatment, I needed a way to give order to my rage, confusion and despair, all of which compelled me to write.
One of the main reasons why few medical interventions, apart from new drugs, have been put through their paces in clinical trials is that it is rarely regarded as sufficient to compare a new treatment with no treatment at all.
"For most people who have some type of treatment, the most intense pain usually is gone within a few weeks, " he said, adding that if the patient had no treatment and the wound healed on its own, there may be prolonged pain.
Specifically they discovered that Pythium ultimum, a fungus that attacks aubergines, peppers, lettuces, tomatoes and cucumbers as seedlings, Clavibacter michiganensis, a bacterium that kills young plants and deforms fruits, and Streptomyces scabies, a second bacterium, which causes potatoes to develop revolting scabs and for which no treatment currently exists, all stopped growing in the presence of the oil.
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Last May, with no more treatment options, he was given a year to live.
"There's no miracle treatment for me, " added Lee, who has taken 310 wickets in 76 Tests.
Spread by biting insects such as midges and mosquitoes, there is no known treatment.
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It has no satisfactory treatment, and sufferers cannot expect to live much past 30.
No new treatment has been created for multiple myeloma in the past 30 years.
No current treatment can cure viral hemorrhagic fevers, and immunizations exist for only a few types.
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