Gillian Mead, a professor of stroke and elderly care medicine at the University of Edinburgh, told the BBC that a rough estimate of the effect was that treating 20 patients with anti-depressants could prevent one of them becoming depending on care.

BBC: Anti-depressants 'may help stroke patients'

She said it was a "ground-breaking" concept, but cautioned that many remarkable advances in treating mice failed to have any effect in people.

BBC: Health

Two years ago Congress, in a provision of the Balanced Budget Act known as Section 4507, in effect, prohibited doctors from treating Medicare-eligible patients outside the Medicare system.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

But study results for Sutent on liver cancer look less promising, and an abstract already presented here seems to point to a far worse side-effect profile for Sutent than Nexavar in treating that form of the disease.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Elan and American Home Products have ended trials of their Alzheimer's vaccine--once seen as one of the most promising new approaches to treating the disease--after 15 patients suffered a potentially serious side effect: swelling of the central nervous system.

FORBES: Magazine Article

If depression is indeed a risk factor for dementia, treating depression should help stave off dementia, but no studies have shown this effect, Saczynski said.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Access to price information shifts the balance of power to the buyers: they can buy as little or as much as they need, treating the order form as if it were a spreadsheet, to see the effect of volume discounts or of adding or removing features.

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