But hang on: in the long-term chiropractic treatment group, the average level was 146.
In contrast, the standard-treatment group showed no significant change from baseline on any of the above measures.
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That way you have a randomly selected control and treatment group, just like in a laboratory experiment.
The result: 257 people in the intensive treatment group died, compared with 203 people in the regular treatment group.
But that trial was not blinded--patients knew which treatment group they were in.
But in bigger babies, it reduced the risk of lung damage to 50%, from 69% in the dummy 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.
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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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!"
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.
In conventional studies, patients are randomly assigned to a treatment or control group to reduce sources of bias.
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With any issue having to do with unfair treatment of a group of people, points of view exist along a bell curve.
The gold standard for testing medical treatments is the randomized trial, in which patients are randomly assigned to a treatment or control group to spread patient differences evenly and avoid bias in results.
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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.
Playing the game greatly improved treatment adherence and understanding of that treatment in that age group, according to the study.
For this treatment to befall that group of Americans who, by their own lights, got the decade mostly right to be so reviled and so vindicated inflicted a kind of painful pleasure.
One hundred and six (106) patients were randomly allocated in a one-to-one ratio to undergo renal denervation with previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment or to maintain previous anti-hypertensive medication treatment alone (control group) at 24 participating centers.
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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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But how many cases of heart failure would one expect in such an elderly group irrespective of treatment?
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Noun: The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
RAND's emphasis on individuals rather than families, an emphasis that is particularly misleading in its treatment of California's largest immigrant group, Hispanics.
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