Overall, one in five said they prefer to take natural products to treat ailments.
Ms Purdy wants to take the drug to treat her spasms which have got so bad she is unable to lie in bed.
These individuals were also at greater risk of being hospitalized for that condition, and to take medication to treat it.
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And it won't help to take Tamiflu or Relenza as a preventative, because they are designed to treat symptoms, Zich said.
It was Fontaine's vision that finally convinced the 32 year-old actress to take on the role: "When Anne explained how she intended to treat the subject, I immediately agreed, " Tautou told CNN.
The connection between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease is by now so well established that inflammatory markers like CRP, while they may prove useful to test and treat, will not take the place of cholesterol any time soon, says Alan Daugherty, PhD, the director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Kentucky.
Take, for instance, ProVigil, which is used to treat excessive daytime sleepiness.
Furthermore, plenty of questions about the supplements remain: Who should take them, how often and how much, and to treat or prevent which kinds of brain-based ailments?
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The Internal Revenue Service allows a 65-day grace period (through March 6, 2013 this year) to take distributable net income out of the trust and treat it as distributed in 2012.
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What's more, pharmaceutical companies tend to prefer investing in new drugs to treat chronic illnesses like diabetes, because patients take them for a long time, making them much more lucrative than antibiotics.
At night, Stachel said, the doctor would take the solar suitcase outside and use it to tend to his patients and treat them with intravenous medications.
Yet, at current rates of production, some reports suggest it would take Roche, the Swiss drug firm that makes Tamiflu, a decade to produce enough to treat 20% of the world's population.
The take-home message is that when financial interests have an effect on the availability of specific medications to treat emergency medical conditions, the public is at risk and our health and safety are compromised.
When a character becomes a franchise, there is only so much repetition that he or she can take before sliding into parody, and there is something distasteful in the thought that we are being urged to treat a homicidal maniac as a lovable rogue.
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