The result: 257 people in the intensive treatment group died, compared with 203 people in the regular treatment group.
Some 87% of the Taxotere group were still alive after five years, but in the standard treatment group the figure was 81%.
This meant that the Taxotere group had a 30% reduction in the risk of death compared to the standard treatment group, and a 28% reduction in the chance of their cancer returning.
She wrote that on the bus to Gaza, still smarting from the rough treatment the group received from the Egyptian authorities, Hass "made me realize why I came in the first place: to break the siege!"
But in bigger babies, it reduced the risk of lung damage to 50%, from 69% in the dummy treatment group.
In contrast, the standard-treatment group showed no significant change from baseline on any of the above measures.
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But hang on: in the long-term chiropractic treatment group, the average level was 146.
He said there were important clinical implications, as the benefit of the treatment was conferred to the group of patients with the highest risks for cardiovascular events, and the effect persisted, even at a rather late stage of disease.
Six monkeys were treated continuously with antiretroviral drugs, a second group was given no treatment and the third group was treated with the drugs on a three weeks on, three weeks off cycle.
The results showed that participants given the fake cigarette as treatment, and who were identified as being heavily dependent on the behavior of smoking, had a quit rate roughly 3.5 times higher than those in the standard-treatment group (67% vs. 19%).
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The animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, however, is outraged.
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In the past, the group has expressed anger at the treatment of Muslims in Hindu-majority India and over the destruction in 1992 of the mosque in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state.
Noun: The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.
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In the group that started treatment right away, only one genetically linked infection occurred.
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In some cases, offenders were allowed to re-join the youth group after psychiatric treatment.
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Psychologists are studying whether the treatment can be adapted to group settings in school, even if parents aren't using the same practices at home.
The amendment to the state constitution would prohibit the state from granting preferential treatment or discriminating against any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, skin color, ethnicity or national origin.
Playing the game greatly improved treatment adherence and understanding of that treatment in that age group, according to the study.
The study didn't find any difference in disease progression a year after treatment between those taking lithium and the control group, researchers said.
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The ad, for the Topsy Foundation, a South African group that delivers HIV treatment, follows three months of the life of a patient with AIDS, rewinding her life from a time during which she is looks healthy and happy and back until when she was emaciated and sick back until when she first takes anti-retroviral pills.
Richardson told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview in Pyongyang that the group is also asking for fair and humane treatment for an American citizen detained in North Korea.
In the group that waited to start treatment, 27 infections occurred in which the virus was genetically linked to the infected partner.
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Although the experiment had no control group, all the patients would have been expected to die without treatment.
The failure of smoking prevention and treatment in this group is largely down to an acceptance of smoking as a "normal behaviour" and is an indictment on public health and clinical services, it said.
Outside the cluster of cinder block structures that make up Kano's Infectious Diseases Hospital, hundreds of sick children are lined up, awaiting treatment from Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit group, which has set up a tent on hospital grounds.
They expect, and deserve, only treatment as favourable as that given to the second group of applicants, which includes Bulgaria, Slovakia and other less-than-perfect democracies.
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Writing in the Lancet medical journal, researchers from The International Hepatitis Interventional Therapy Group report a new treatment for chronic HCV infection that uses a combination of interferon alpha-2b and a drug called ribavirin.
But Josephine Quintavalle, founder of the public interest group Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) described the use of human embryos for therapeutic treatment as "quite horrifying, " and said that stem cell research should focus on the use of adult stem cells.
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