Sentences with phrase «than medicine alone»

Thrombectomy combined with the clot - busting medicine was no better than medicine alone if the procedure was performed more than about seven hours after stroke symptoms began.

However, I believe that a healthy diet will help me live a longer life than medicine alone.

Not exact matches

We must, therefore, retain a little more confidence in American medicine than this book alone is likely to produce in us, but, so long as we keep that in mind, White Coat, Black Hat should force us to ask some hard questions about how best to structure the practice of medicine.

The benefits of treating serious strokes with clot removal were shown in 2015, when five separate studies analyzing a total of 1,287 patients showed that severe stroke patients — usually with clots involving the largest blood vessels in the brain — who received both the clot - snatching procedure and the medicine did significantly better than those who got medicine alone.

No effective medicines exist for Alzheimer's, which is estimated to afflict more than 4 million people in the United States alone.

Areán, a UW Medicine researcher in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said most of the participants had never used a tablet, let alone played a video game, but compliance was more than 100 percent.

Professor Peter Andrews, Head of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, said: «This well conducted trial has shown that hypothermia can successfully reduce brain pressure following trauma, but after 6 months functional recovery was significantly worse than standard care alone.»

Women with Stage III ovarian cancer given a combination of intravenous and intraperitoneal chemotherapy following surgical debulking of tumor had a median survival nearly 16 months longer than women who received IV chemotherapy alone, according to a study published conducted by the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), a National Cancer Institute - supported research network, in the January 5, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

«The study shows that the anti-VEGF medication therapy is substantially better than standard laser treatment alone for this condition, which affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide,» said Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin Diabetes Center, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and DRCR.net's inaugural Chair.

Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise found that PNF stretching produced 100 per cent more muscle response and 89 per cent more joint range motion than a standard stretch and relax routine alone.

In a study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, for instance, inhaling lavender (together with sleep hygiene recommendations such as maintaining a regular sleep schedule, avoiding coffee and alcohol, not eating late in the day, and avoiding screens and texting in bed) improved sleep quality in people who had difficulty sleeping, more so than sleep hygiene alone.

After growing frustrated with more than four years of struggling with traditional western medicine treatments alone, Christine felt that she needed to take more control of her own body.

I became fascinated by how to blend Eastern and Western medicine to address the root cause of health issues (rather than the symptoms alone).

A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found a higher sodium to potassium ratio was more of a risk factor for heart disease than sodium alone.

He feels strongly that by combining Western and Eastern Medicine, the care for our fur friends health will be better than either one alone.

They are among the world's largest NGOs in tuberculosis treatment and prevention, making these services available to more than 8.9 million people who have little access to basic healthcare, let alone medicines to treat TB.