But hang on: in the long-term chiropractic treatment group, the average level was 146.
In contrast, the standard-treatment group showed no significant change from baseline on any of the above measures.
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That way you have a randomly selected control and treatment group, just like in a laboratory experiment.
The result: 257 people in the intensive treatment group died, compared with 203 people in the regular treatment group.
But that trial was not blinded--patients knew which treatment group they were in.
The results showed that participants given the fake cigarette as treatment, and who were identified as being heavily dependent on the behavior of smoking, had a quit rate roughly 3.5 times higher than those in the standard-treatment group (67% vs. 19%).
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She wrote that on the bus to Gaza, still smarting from the rough treatment the group received from the Egyptian authorities, Hass "made me realize why I came in the first place: to break the siege!"
Fed up with waiting for a treatment, the group is now threatening public protests if there are still more delays.
With any issue having to do with unfair treatment of a group of people, points of view exist along a bell curve.
For this treatment to befall that group of Americans who, by their own lights, got the decade mostly right—to be so reviled and so vindicated—inflicted a kind of painful pleasure.
One hundred and six (106) patients were randomly allocated in a one-to-one ratio to undergo renal denervation with previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment or to maintain previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment alone (control group) at 24 participating centers.
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But how many cases of heart failure would one expect in such an elderly group irrespective of treatment?
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Noun: The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.
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The ad, for the Topsy Foundation, a South African group that delivers HIV treatment, follows three months of the life of a patient with AIDS, rewinding her life from a time during which she is looks healthy and happy and back until when she was emaciated and sick — back until when she first takes anti-retroviral pills.
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