Sentences with phrase «effective than no treatment»

PMIL treatment also was significantly more effective than treatment with both XL184 and BPD - PDT given as separate agents.

Rich and colleagues are now testing in mice whether combining Zika with traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is more effective than either treatment by itself.

In an animal model of AML, treatment with a combination of FLT3 - and SYK - inhibiting drugs was significantly more effective than treatment with either drug alone.

The study shows that treatments tailored for different disabilities caused by MS could be more effective than treatments intended to target multiple different disabilities.

Background: Regular exercise and consuming long - chain n − 3 fatty acids (FAs) from fish or fish oil can independently improve cardiovascular and metabolic health, but combining these lifestyle modifications may be more effective than either treatment alone.

The cost of preventative medicine is always less expensive and more effective than treatment once an ailment begins.

Because the mechanisms of development of neuropathic pain are multifactorial, appropriate polypharmacy is likely to be more effective than treatment with single agents.

Milbemycin seems to be a bit less effective than treatment with ivermectin, sometimes requiring the concurrent use of dipping.

These tiny parasites can cause big trouble for pets, and preventing an infection is often easier and more cost effective than treatment after the fact.

In the article, she says that «As a family physician, I believe that prevention is more cost - effective than treatment.

As the authors note, previous research has produced mixed results; some studies have found behavioural interventions to be no more effective than no treatment.

A 2005 review of randomized controlled trials found that «psychoanalytic therapy is (1) more effective than no treatment or treatment as usual, and (2) more effective than shorter forms of psychodynamic therapy».

The pooled results showed that group psychotherapy was more effective than no treatment after the treatment period (15 studies) and at a mean 19.1 weeks after treatment ended (10 studies)(table ⇓).

Between - group comparisons showed that short term psychotherapy was more effective than no treatment or treatment as usual (p < 0.01 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general symptoms and social functioning) but there was no difference between short term and other forms of psychotherapy (15 studies, p = 0.69 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general and social functioning).

Family therapy seems more effective than no treatment or being placed on a waiting list, but it remains unclear how effective this intervention is in comparison to other interventions.

Not exact matches

Medicare spent more than $ 15,700 per beneficiary with diabetes in 2014, but effective intervention strategies could decrease federal spending on diabetes treatment by $ 1.3 billion in the first decade, according to analysis by Avalere Health.

But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

Dog owners find it more effective than other topical flea treatments, and they say side effects are rare.

And while Otezla's competition may have a leg up in the efficacy department — England's cost watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, last month declared that Celgene's product was «a less effective treatment» than existing rivals — it has its own distinguishing feature.

In the poll conducted after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school last week, more than three - quarters, 77 percent, said they think more effective mental health screening and treatment could have prevented the shooting.

Treatment is seven times more cost - effective than domestic law enforcement, ten times more effective than interdiction, and 23 times more effective than attacking drugs at their source.

Wenger is ruthless with the wrong players and not ruthless with the ones who deserve it, his treatment of Senderos was awful I thought before he left, Senderos was nothing but loyal and I do nt think he was any less effective than Squillachi, Koscielny, Diaby, etc but hey he was Swiss not French.

Doctors from Southern California to Michigan pain specialists report the following common causes bring women into their offices more than any other kind of pain and also suggest some effective treatments.

Although research showed that graduated compression is more effective at treating most venous disorders than uniform compression, the latter is prescribed by doctors in treatment of edema.

It is more common than most women think, affecting up to 10 percent of new moms, and there are effective treatments available.

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In addition, TF - CBT appears to be more effective than other types of treatment approaches that may be used with children with a history of sexual abuse, such as supportive therapy or play therapy.

That is, six or seven treatments of five minutes each spread over the day will be more effective than one treatment lasting for thirty minutes.

In the past 12 years oral rehydration therapy (ORT) has proved to be effective as more than just supportive treatment for mild illness.

While overall fertility has not changed for a woman living in her 40s, the fertility treatments available to women who want to start a family later in life are more effective than before.

As a converse, it doesn't matter WHAT you do, as soon as you grant more power / more budgets to the government, it will ALWAYS be more cost effective for someone to spend X amount of money on lobbying to obtain a lot more than X in government preferential treatment.

Justice spokesman David Howarth said: «For these offenders, effective drug treatment outside prison will have a far greater impact on reducing future crime than short - term prison sentences.

I found the focus on education, while it is an important component, less an effective approach than a detailed plan for treatment of addicts would have been.

In the poll conducted after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school last week, more than three - quarters, 77 percent, said they think more effective mental health screening and treatment could have prevented the shooting.

«Rather than educating youth about the dangers of opioids, focusing on getting hardened drug dealers poisoning our children off the streets, and offering addicts effective treatment, we will instead signal to users that addiction is a manageable condition and you can partake in illegal opioid use nearly risk - free.»

In the running for the best flea bomb on the market, Bengal Chemical Flea Fogger is a really effective treatment that gets rid of a lot more than fleas.

When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.

Tests showed that combining mTOR inhibitors with chemotherapy was far more effective at treating leukemia than when the inhibitors or chemotherapy were used as stand - alone treatments.

The study also suggests that targeting the machinery that makes cells mobile, rather than targeting the tissue - clearing process — which has been tested in patients but has not been very effective — may be a better treatment strategy to stop cancers from spreading.

Just as the finding that tea made from willow bark could alleviate headaches led scientists to the discovery of salicylic acid — which in turn led to the invention of aspirin — many acupuncture researchers think that their work might lead to a treatment for pain that is more effective than acupuncture.

He adds that his treatment has a much better safety record than conventional surgery and that animal and imaging studies have proved it effective.

To address these limitations, NUS researchers developed highly compressible hybrid cotton aerogel pellets which are more effective than cellulose - based sponges for treatment of deep haemorrhagic wounds.

Depressed men with localized prostate cancer were more likely to be diagnosed with more aggressive prostate cancer, received less effective treatments and survived for shorter times than prostate cancer patients who were not depressed, a UCLA study has found.

Triple - negative tumors are aggressive and more likely to metastasize than other breast cancers, and there is no effective treatment.

«If it isn't possible to allow patients to choose, prolonged exposure therapy rather than the medication is a cost - effective treatment option,» Zoellner said.

Treatment with an appropriate diet could be cheaper and more effective than surgery, he says.

It's clear this is not going to cure every patient, but treatments that include immunotherapy are more effective than other options.

He told Nature that his experiments in mice suggest that such a treatment could be more effective than using whole plasma.

African Americans are less supportive than either whites or Hispanics of allowing access to experimental drug treatments before such treatments have been shown to be safe and effective.

Previous research has suggested that anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin used in conjunction with antipsychotic treatments may be more effective than just the antipsychotics themselves.