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In particular, these regions should train and deploy a new cadre of community health workers, trained to recognize disease symptoms, provide surveillance, and administer diagnoses and appropriate
treatments.
A catfight is now underway about which institution has been right over the past few years, the IMF with its tough
treatments
or the World Bank and its alternative cures.
The World Bank’s alternative
treatments
and Japan’s Asian IMF are, despite lip service, not drawing too many clients.
That finding immediately became a source of deep concern, because artemisinin is a critical ingredient in
treatments
for Plasmodium falciparum malaria, the deadliest form of the mosquito-borne parasite.
Specifically, there is a need for more high-quality data on the performance of programmatic interventions, and on the efficacy of current
treatments.
In other words, you can have two years of gradual decline with some pain, or three years of nauseating treatments, “chemo brain,” loss of hair, and diminished dignity.
Medstory has a deep understanding of health care, including the relationships between diseases and treatments, drugs and symptoms, and side effects.
In addition, scientific research on this most accessible of human organs will continue to identify innovative
treatments
and modes of prevention, which may well become applicable to other cancers.
The local hospitals lack the equipment needed to perform many important procedures, like radiation
treatments
for cancer patients and heart surgery.
In recent decades, doctors have become much more comfortable giving physical
treatments
to remedy psychological and social problems.
A wide range of effective
treatments
are available that don’t cause weight gain, sexual dysfunction, diabetes, memory loss, or addiction.
If these new
treatments
aren’t used more frequently, this isn’t because they don’t work.
This is unacceptable, especially given the availability of
treatments
for these diseases.
Moreover, those who buy care – insurers and patients – are unlikely to have the information necessary to choose the safest and most effective
treatments.
It will also depend on institutions’ ability to design rational health care, monitor delivery, and properly assess new
treatments.
While the researchers who originally published those studies may have profited from increased funding and recognition, the patients who need new cancer
treatments
gained nothing.
Much of today’s bottled water, however, is not glacier or natural spring water but processed water, which is municipal water or, more often, directly extracted groundwater that has been subjected to reverse osmosis or other purification
treatments.
In Liberia, 60% of markets are now closed; in Sierra Leone, only one-fifth of the 10,000 HIV patients who are on anti-retroviral
treatments
are still receiving them; and Guinea’s government is reporting a $220 million financing gap because of the crisis.
The history of the field is littered with definitions of entire disease categories that have been influenced by diagnostic fashions, politics, and the availability of
treatments.
Most psychiatric
treatments
are effective across a wide range of diagnoses, whatever their origin.
But despite the paucity of success, the typical goal in cancer therapy remains similar to that of antimicrobial
treatments
– killing as many tumor cells as possible under the assumption that this will, at best, cure the disease and, at worst, keep the patient alive for as long as possible.
Finally, researchers should compare the long-term cost-effectiveness of different
treatments
in typical chronic-pain patients.
Such an approach would be more relevant and generalizable than industry-sponsored short-term studies that compare new
treatments
to placebos in a fastidiously chosen population that does not reflect real-world conditions.
A thorough and realistic understanding of the nature of chronic pain is crucial to devising effective
treatments.
Moreover, we must invest in research and development of low-cost diabetes
treatments
and diagnostic tools that are suited for low-resource environments.
People understandably become disillusioned when their government or the business community doesn’t seem to value them, especially when such
treatments
stems from their gender, race, religion, sexual identity, or national origin.
The science case that probably played the most significant role in the campaign was a suit filed by the British Chiropractic Association against science writer Simon Singh for an article he published in The Guardian in 2008, in which he discussed “bogus treatments.”
Once it became clear that the epidemic would not be rapidly contained, several firms quickly arranged for clinical trials of potential
treatments
and vaccines, indicating that they already had the ability to produce plausible candidates.
It is not certain that the existence of such a fund prior to the recent Ebola outbreak would have led to the development of vaccines or
treatments
for the disease.
But pharmaceutical companies would have been considering such products – as well as other
treatments
to save lives or improve health anywhere in the world, regardless of people’s ability to pay.
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