Sentences with phrase «effective than surgery»

There are alternative drug therapies that are sometimes more effective than surgery.

The FDA has also said it's not clear whether the mesh is more effective than surgery without it.

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

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«Council tax bills set to rise by more than 100 % under Labour Main Harry Phibbs: In 2008 are surgeries still an effective use of local councillors?»

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

Less than half the surgeries, drugs, and tests that doctors recommend have been proved effective.

Use of this paradigm may be more effective than conventional management for the prevention of disease - related complications, surgeries and hospitalizations

New research shows that bariatric surgery (also known as obesity surgery) is much more effective than an intensive lifestyle / medication intervention at reversing type 2 diabetes in patients with only mild - to - moderate obesity.

More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing cancer from returning.

«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

«In coming years we may have a tool to make that surgery more precise, effective and thorough than it's been before.»

administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound that stimulates bone formation and inhibits bone resorption, wherein said compound is an agonist of a cannabinoid receptor and wherein said subject having a bone disease or condition is a subject having a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of periodontal disease or defect, osteolytic bone disease other than osteoporosis, post-plastic surgery, post-orthopedic implantation, post-dental implantation, age - related osteoporosis, osteoporosis associated with post-menopausal hormone status, primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism, disuse osteoporosis, diabetes - related osteoporosis, osteoporosis associated with depression, osteoporosis associated with hypogonadism and glucocorticoid - related osteoporosis.

Ira Sharlip, MD, spokesman for the American Urological Association and clinical professor of urology at University of California at San Francisco, believes there aren't any effective treatments other than corrective surgery.

In an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Bruce Moseley, an orthopedic surgeon renowned for the knee surgeries he performed on people with debilitating knee pain, reported about a brilliant study he designed to prove that his signature knee surgery was more effective than others.

Unfortunately mainstream docs don't have training in functional nutrition, targeted supplementation, botanicals and effective stress reduction techniques so it's difficult for them to recommend anything other than the pill or surgery.

Research studies consistently show that acupuncture can be an effective form of pain management, with some studies finding it even more effective than pain - relieving drugs or surgery.

We pay a monthly benefit if you are disabled more than six months after the policy's effective date because of a sickness or injury caused by cosmetic or transplant surgery.

We pay a monthly benefit if the insured is disabled more than six months after the policy's effective date from a sickness or injury caused by cosmetic or transplant surgery.

We pay a monthly benefit if you become totally disabled more than six months after the policy's effective date because of a sickness or injury caused by cosmetic or transplant surgery.

It is highly cost - effective: Your pet's spay / neuter surgery is far lower in cost than having and caring for a litter, and that's before the cost of treatment for all these health issues is even considered.

Studies have shown that surgery alone is not effective with survival rates that are no different than dogs that have not been treated.

It's very effective and is much less expensive than surgery especially for older dogs.

Highly Cost - Effective The cost of your pet's spay / neuter surgery is a lot less than the cost of caring for a litter.

Most of the veterinarians that perform this surgery are general practitioners and perform this procedure because it is much less expensive than TPLO's (the choice of most board certified specialist in the country) and they want to give their clients an alternative that is almost as effective as a TPLO at likely half the cost of that procedure.

It also reported it was not clear that transvaginal mesh surgery is more effective than non-mesh repair of POP.

This Food and Drug Administration classification means that complications associated with transvaginal mesh are «not rare» and that there is no evidence proving that transvaginal mesh repair surgeries for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) are more effective than traditional non-mesh repair.