Why not be able to enjoy five more years of life without debilitating disease?
But those with COPD were no more motivated to quit than smokers without the disease.
So most doctors are going to be reluctant to prescribe it without a disease or condition to treat.
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The group analysed more than 29, 000 cases of children with cancer against a comparable group without the disease.
And now, the drug, in combination with the chemotherapy Taxol, allows patients with early-stage breast cancer an average of four months without their disease progressing.
But aspirin is also prescribed as a primary prevention technique - for those without cardiovascular disease but who may be considered at risk of these conditions.
The study also found that smokers who had COPD showed higher levels of dependence on cigarettes and smoked more cigarettes a day than smokers without the disease.
Experts urged Chinese health authorities to keep testing healthy birds, saying the H7N9 virus can infect birds without causing disease, making it harder to detect than the H5N1 bird flu virus that is more familiar to Asian countries.
Only wild birds could carry the disease without getting sick, and so disseminate it far.
Patients who received the two-drug combination lived about 4.6 months longer without seeing their disease progress.
If effective drugs could treat the disease without any dangerous or unpleasant side effects, they would be surefire blockbusters.
Even without such a disease, "it takes longer to make decisions, it takes longer to learn new things, " she said.
So the review authors were not convinced that people without previous heart disease should all go on statins, even though their own numbers showed a decreased risk.
But over the long term, drug companies aren't likely to want to wade into fighting infectious disease without major government incentives, like patent extensions on completely unrelated drugs.
Worse, these animals may also be excreting the lethal virus in their faeces, which could explain how some humans have contracted the disease without any apparent contact with poultry.
Yet, despite this fantastic success rate, kids are now in danger of facing this disease without this life saving drug all because manufacturing the medicine is no longer as profitable for the pharmaceutical companies as it once was.
But she says the lower yields of organic farms in any country could be greatly increased as scientists learn more about controlling insects and disease without chemicals, and find the right crops to suit a particular region's pests and climate.
Researchers are now studying whether gut neurons, which can be sampled through a routine colonoscopy, may help clinicians diagnose and track the disease without invasive brain biopsies, says Pascal Derkinderen, a professor of neurology at Inserm, France's national institute of health.
El-Masri says Vytorin will allow doctors to treat heart disease aggressively without worrying as much about safety.
They found that 7.7% of those without diabetes or kidney disease died over the course of the decade-long study.
Instead, researchers use these so-called natural-history studies to gain a better understanding of how the disease progresses without treatment and to track different symptoms.
Patients without pre-existing disease on high potency statins were 34% more likely to be hospitalized with acute kidney injury than patients on other statin regimens.
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Walk the Freedom Trail, do Sherman's march to the sea, reenact the life of Johnny Appleseed, recreate the discoveries of Lewis and Clark, but without all the venereal disease.
The stress of figuring all this out is difficult enough without the terror of the disease itself.
Without this enzyme, the disease damages the heart and muscles, often fatally.
Patients with either of two genes associated with autoimmune disorders, HLA-DR2 and HLA-DR4, have gone five years without any progression of the disease.
Within 120 days of starting treatment there were 4691 hospitalizations for acute kidney injury in patients without pre-existing kidney disease and 1896 hospitalizations in patients with pre-existing disease.
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An analysis of nine medical trials involving over 100, 000 people without a history of cardiovascular disease found that aspirin was more likely to do them harm than good.
Although thermal scanners used in airports may detect travelers with symptoms, they are not effective since people exposed to an infectious disease could travel without any signs or symptoms and yet still be infectious.
The authors estimated that 1, 700 patients without pre-existing kidney disease would need to be treated with a high potency statin instead of a low potency statin to cause one additional acute kidney injury requiring hospitalization.
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