Instead, the company has focused on stem cells, not only for treatment of chronic conditions, but for cosmetics.
The vote was close, with 9 for approval and 6 against, and only for treatment in a rare genetic disease called homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).
Charities would say that this isn't the issue - beta interferon is the only drug treatment for MS and there are no alternatives.
For many patients, the news is likely to be incredibly confusing, and even dispiriting, as they try to grapple with drugs that they thought were the only treatment for their pain.
Back in 1955 in Canada, it was the only treatment available for Addison's disease.
Nonetheless, only one other treatment for dyslexia has come close to showing comparable improvements.
But Zelnorm is the only treatment approved for IBS marked by constipation.
But the class of migraine medicines that hit the market in the 1990s called triptans remain the best or only treatment option for many patients.
Although Ms. Williamson and her sisters wanted doctors to do more, they learned that their mother had signed a Polst form asking for only limited medical treatment.
Tomas Salmonson, acting chairman of the EMA's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, said evaluating Glybera had not been easy and experts had decided it should be recommended only for those patients with the greatest need for treatment.
So based on one mediocre study from 12 years ago, involving only a small number of patients, for only one condition, Cohen is calling for acupuncture to become standard treatment for all cancer patients.
Only 4% of advanced colon cancer patients now get the drug for initial treatment, and only 14% get the drug as their second treatment, he says.
Of those, only Lotronex, a treatment for irritable-bowel syndrome in women, has been re-introduced.
The drug is the first and the only FDA-approved treatment for DME patients, which are treated by laser surgery otherwise.
Rigas wasn't talking about his health, although he's rebounded from triple-bypass surgery last year and only skips the office occasionally for treatment at the Mayo Clinic.
The Association of American Medical Colleges reported last November that medical-loss ratios of for-profit HMOs paying a flat fee to doctors for treatment averaged only 70% of their premium revenue.
The outcome of the treatment is uncertain, but Mrs Clark said she had been given hope by the story of a little girl from Northern Ireland who had gone for the treatment only able to see light.
When Elizabeth (Betsy) McCaughey was lieutenant governor of New York in the 1990s, forging a combative reputation for clashing with Governor George Pataki and her own party, she kept hearing from bereaved constituents whose loved ones had entered the hospital for treatment, only to die from infections they got there.
"In Los Angeles, for example, they have only 150 beds for kids aged 13 to 18 who need residential treatment for drug abuse, " said Rosenthal.
Buenos Aires and its suburbs have only three waste-water treatment plants for 10m residents, and often suffer flash floods that drench entire avenues.
There's only one treatment, we learned, for that affliction: food.
By the same token, he has rejected the claim of Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the finance minister, that Golkar is pursuing her only because she has resisted special treatment for Bakrie family firms.
At the main hospital in Quetta, Dr Shamim Gul said only one of the injured was brought there for treatment.
Yet a class of drugs that represents one of the most important recent advances in treatment of the disease only works for one in three patients.
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Victor Perfitt, of the British Herbal Medicines Association, stressed that it should never be used as a treatment for clinical depression, only the milder forms of the condition.
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Another official told the AFP that Abdul Majeed Marwat had escaped with "only scratches" but had been taken to hospital for treatment.
To her amazement, after only five days of treatment the symptoms went away for months in up to 80% of the animals.
In Europe, clinical guidelines exist which ensure that only those people who will benefit most are targeted for treatment, and this has led to prescribing levels of between 12% and 16%.
The Scottish government only guarantees a short wait for the "first" cancer treatment and radiotherapy after surgery is not included in treatment targets.
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