Your doctor will try to achieve a balance between controlling your symptoms while minimizing toxic effects from treatment.

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Furthermore, even by the relatively hygienic standards of most insurers, the asset side of Lloyd's' balance-sheet is squeaky clean, while the toxic claims that brought it to its knees in the 1990s are now parcelled off to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

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By blocking these errant molecules, D-serine and poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP), researchers may be able to stop brain cells from dying while avoiding the toxic side effects that have plagued previous experimental treatments.

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