Sentences with phrase «decades old treatment»

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The trend is seen as the result of advances in treatment and medication, and the decades - old mandate against needlessly confining people with mental illnesses.

With the population of older adults in the United States projected to increase significantly in the coming decades, more effective sarcopenia treatment and prevention could help control healthcare costs.

«Solving of a decade long mystery could help in fight against TB: Scientists have solved a decade - old mystery that could eventually lead to the development of earlier treatments for one of the world's deadliest diseases.»

Scientists have solved a decade - old mystery that could eventually lead to the development of earlier treatments for one of the world's deadliest diseases, which affects up to 2 billion people.

It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

But Criterion is also home to some of the finest contemporary filmmakers like Wes Anderson, Mike Leigh (Meantime), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper), and Alexander Payne, whose Election has gotten the deluxe treatment accorded to films that are many decades old.

For example, a 62 - year - old man whose systolic blood pressure (the top number) is 125, doesn't smoke, and does not have diabetes or other cardiovascular problems, would have a 4 percent risk of stroke over the following decade; if the same man had a systolic blood pressure of 160 (140 and above is too high) and wasn't receiving treatment for high blood pressure, his risk of stroke within the next 10 years would be 15 percent.