The primary treatment for prostate cancer is a hormone treatment which causes osteoporosis.
For other infections, particularly viruses, the primary treatment options are: vaccination to prevent infection, antiviral agents that only work against specific viruses (sometimes only specific strains of viruses) and just doing the best you can do to keep a patient healthy and hydrated while their own immune system does the heavy lifting.
But he said it was unfair that NHS Surrey refused to fund the treatment while other primary care trusts have chosen to do so.
Such an outcome seems unlikely: no government would stand by and let people be denied health treatment because a primary-care trust got its sums wrong.
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These programs include the establishment of a treatment system for adolescents, early intervention and treatment programs in primary healthcare settings, jail diversion programs, re-entry services for those leaving state and county correctional facilities, and overdose prevention programs.
If managed-care programs would pay for drug treatment assessment, counseling and referrals by primary-care doctors, rather than waiting for the problem to get serious enough to require specialized medical treatment, the costs would be lowered for everyone, says Eric Gopelurd, a clinical psychologist at George Washington University's Department of Health Policy.
Professor Andre Tylee is an expert in the treatment of mental health in primary care at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.
Migrants are eligible for primary and emergency care, and for secondary treatment that cannot be delayed (though they may be charged for it).
Levy writes that the concurrent decline in mortality from cardiovascular disease is likely the result of advances in both prevention and treatment, but only advances in primary prevention can explain the trend found in the autopsy studies.
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Family members and primary level health workers are taught to seek immediate treatment if a new-born is unwell.
In addition to its fee increase for visits, which will vary by market, WellPoint will offer primary-care doctors payments for services such as developing treatment plans for patients with chronic diseases.
The Lister Surgicentre, located on the Lister Hospital site, opened in November 2011 and provides routine surgery and treatment to NHS patients, commissioned directly by the Primary Care Trust (PCT), NHS Hertfordshire.
Bolton Primary Health Care Trust did not pay for Mr Norburn's treatment.
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Also today, Trius Therapeutics (TSRX) said a phase 3 trial of its tedizolid phosphate treatment for bacterial skin and skin structure infections met its primary endpoint.
The companies decided to end the program for developing the compound, called Dimebon, after it failed to meet two primary endpoints in a phase 3 trial studying its use with the existing treatment Aricept in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's.
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The Family Caregiver Alliance, a San Francisco nonprofit group, suggests addressing the following issues: the latest doctor's report, fears about illness and caregiving, daily caregiving needs, financial concerns, the person who will make decisions about finances or medical treatment, what support role each family member should play and what support the primary caregiver might need.
The primary care trust, which is in charge of commissioning local health services, had to decide if the treatment, Herceptin, was worth the cost.
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Of course, Republicans agree, women should have direct access to a gynaecologist or obstetrician (instead of having to see a primary-care doctor first), and of course patients should have guaranteed access to emergency-room treatment and the right to know all the medical options and appeal against an insurer's decision.
The primary care trust has been disbanded but was in charge of the decision at the time of Molly's treatment.
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