Cancer treatment -- in particular, cranial radiation -- can also impair cognitive functioning, experts say.
Fee-for-service plans--with their equally problematic incentives for doctors to provide too much costly treatment--continue to shrink.
But we make no suggestions about how to go about treatment--you're on your own for that.
Today, she no longer needs intensive treatment -- just one session a week to practice social skills.
The possibility of selling diagnosis-and-treatment packages to cost-conscious managed-care organisations could boost the firm's sales still more.
An alternative treatment--implanting tiny radioactive "seeds"--has less risk of side effects but doesn't always eradicate the cancer.
The mean relative FEV1 across the combination dose groups returned toward baseline during the post-treatment 28-day washout period.
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Moreover, patients at the highest risk should receive even more aggressive treatment--meaning higher, more expensive doses of these drugs.
On Thursday, he returned home to Venezuela from a second round of treatment -- and spent the weekend there.
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But remember, consult with your doctor before stopping any treatment--the benefits of the drug could still easily outweigh the risks.
During a job interview -- a couple of years after she started her treatment -- she met her current partner.
Or is it, in fact, the pet approach of the experimenters pitted against a treatment-as-usual or less than ideal opponent?
After more than a decade, managed-care plans--with their incentives for doctors to hold down treatment costs--cover about half the population.
Each week seems to bring an announcement of a new drug, device or high-end treatment - with developed-world price tags to match.
Treatment-as-prevention raises questions about how ARVs should be used in the future.
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One technique, treatment-as-prevention, relies on the fact that ARVs themselves suppress transmission.
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Perhaps, they reason, the treatment -- say a vitamin, or an aspirin -- could have a physiological effect not yet found in studies.
He said it was that treatment -- not a once-rumored desire by Jackson to be white -- that lightened his skin over the years.
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Even Bill Gates got the treatment--Boies began the trial by narrating a videotaped deposition that made the megabillionaire look like a man in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's.
In recent years, many have preferred seeing this one getting the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment -- the cult comedy show riffed on it in the early 1990s.
Green and Hollister got emergency clearance from their hospital and the Food and Drug Administration to try the experimental treatment -- which had been used only on animals -- on Kaiba.
We hope by now you've seen the video of Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda demoing the latest software to undergo the Project Natal treatment -- Beautiful Katamari and Space Invaders Extreme.
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Imagine water pouring into a sink and a really tiny stopper trying to hold it all back--that's our treatment program--and there's nothing slowing the amount of water pouring into that sink.
Gains need to be maintained and financing for buying and distributing the essential commodities such as pediatric amoxicillin, long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets (LLINs), anti-malarial treatment, oral-rehydration treatment and zinc, needs to be sustained.
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But when a specialist finally offered a formal diagnosis, Bullard was flabbergasted to hear the doctor tell her she could never afford the price tag for "Cadillac" treatment -- tens of thousands of dollars a year.
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Still, that is a saving, and I can spread the packing cost if I get a couple of friends to order as well, but I get the any-color-as-long-as-it's-blue treatment and opt to wait for the sales.
Anderson spent three weeks in residential treatment -- all she could afford -- but didn't think that was enough, so she enrolled in Mothers Making a Change, a year-long outpatient drug and alcohol program in Atlanta, Georgia.
The two other possibilities, which were ruled out, were on-island heat treatment - in an incinerator, gasification or pyrolysis plant - or a further stage of processing to produce a fuel product, which would also be shipped off-island.
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