Word: treates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Currently, there are two drugs approved to treat RLS. One of the drugs, Requip, made $500 million last year for the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, which first marketed the drug in 1997 for Parkinson's disease. Today, the company markets Requip - some say aggressively - as a treatment for RLS. It is now prescribed more often to treat that condition than Parkinson's, Rye says. Experts who challenge the validity of RLS say that such drug-company advertising campaigns over-medicalize phantom conditions and drive people to take drugs they don't need...
...some 10% of patients who undergo hysterectomy do so to treat cancer of the ovaries, uterus or cervix. In such cases, doctors agree that the procedure is necessary. And these patients undergo hysterectomy in its most radical form, which involves removal of the uterus, cervix, the upper part of the vagina and the lymph nodes...
...Take fibroids, for instance. Parker challenges the common misconception that fibroids can often become cancerous; the actual incidence of cancer cases in women with fibroids is very rare, less than 1 in 1,000. According to Parker, patients should treat fibroids by communicating with their doctor and monitoring how the fibroids make them feel-whether they cause pain, bloating or heavy menstrual bleeding and whether they affect mood and energy levels. For patients who choose to remove fibroids, there are alternatives to hysterectomy: laparoscopic myomectomy eliminates fibroids through half-inch incisions made in the abdominal wall. In fibroid embolization...
...treat heavy menstrual bleeding, patients can use an interuterine device (IUD) coated with the hormone levonorgestrel, a type of progesterone. One study of Finnish women showed that two-thirds of those who used IUDs canceled their hysterectomy due to significantly reduced or stopped bleeding. The IUD has also helped hysterectomy rates fall in the U.K. to one-third of what they were a decade...
...from anyone to cast a shadow over the famous Maine lobster. But even this fabled treat failed to work as a sweetener on Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the way to Kennebunkport, where President George W. Bush's family were receiving "friend Vladimir" earlier his month, Putin had been particularly fretting about the prospective deployment in Europe of the U.S. Anti-Ballistic Missile system (ABM), a shield against missiles that rogue countries, Iran in particular, may be able to launch in future. In addition to ABM, which Putin considers a threat to Russia, NATO failed to ratify the Conventional Forces...