In January, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt criticised the decision to stop offering patients the heart treatment procedure which Tony Blair underwent last year.
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When a patient comes in with questions about a particular treatment or procedure after looking at information on the web or talking to friends and family (which is more common in my patient demographic), I use this as an educational opportunity (both ways).
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In 1987, she performed the world's first excimer laser treatment, a procedure that eliminates or reduces the need for contact lenses.
That is different than payment today that encourages excessive treatment by paying by procedure.
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The closest thing to LED photomodulation is a controversial procedure called nonablative laser treatment, which uses heat to burn away subsurface skin so that new cells will replace it.
The closest thing out there to LED photomodulation is a controversial procedure called nonablative laser treatment, which uses heat to burn away sub-surface skin so that new cells will replace it.
In a procedure known as photodynamic treatment, which has been studied for years, certain pharmaceutical ingredients that are sensitive to light can kill acne when turned on by specific light wavelengths.
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That's the procedure set down in the Detainee Treatment Act.
They saw that this non-invasive procedure had the potential to revolutionize cancer treatment as a non-toxic alternative to chemotherapy.
"We're optimistic that this life-saving procedure will continue to be available as a treatment option for patients with debilitating illnesses, " the president of the American Psychiatric Association, Carol Bernstein, M.
Fortunately, the docs who caught John Turner's aneurysm said he was eligible for a relatively new procedure, called an endograft, a vastly improved treatment.
The cancer was surgically removed in a procedure called a lumpectomy, and Navratilova will undergo radiation treatment, she said.
On Thursday swine flu sufferer Sharon Pentleton had to be transferred from Scotland to Sweden to receive specialist treatment, because no beds were available in the UK for the procedure she needed.
The 64-patient trial produced mixed results: 61% of patients who received the real procedure reported complete heartburn relief versus 33% of patients who got the fake treatment.
It was a good treatment, but patients had to inject themselves once a day near the groin, not a very pleasant procedure.
The traditional procedure would have been to first conduct larger trials in several hundred patients comparing the experimental drug to standard treatment, and only then to seek approval.
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