And we have better than surgery results in breasts.

It didn't work very well on the schizophrenics, but it was pretty clear in the '30s and by the middle of the '40s that electroconvulsive therapy was very, very effective in the treatment of depression.

44. The three experimental studies show similar results methadone substitution is more efficient than placebo treatment or no treatment at all, particularly with regard to reduction of heroin consumption and involvement in criminal activity, as long as the patients are in long term treatment.

The past 40 years have demonstrated the remarkable return on investment to be gained in collaborative scientific research.

And medication didn't help him anymore.

Has the treatment helped? Yes.

That is where biomarkers make a difference. They can help drug makers to design clinical studies that will show a high relative treatment difference between the drug and whatever it is being compared to (often a placebo, but sometimes another treatment).

(c) Failure in other treatment options.

Now, obviously, antiangiogenic therapy could be used for a wide range of cancers.

Traditionally, heroin maintenance was defined as bona fide medical treatment if addicts who had failed to respond to treatment were able to live relatively normal lives when provided with a regular supply of the drug.

And then they said to the physician, You decided a few weeks ago that nothing is working for this patient.

And it was just a pictogram to sort of show why more women are dying of heart disease, despite these good treatments that we know and we have work.

Mountains mean sanatoriums.

Our models show that in the absence of therapy, cancer cells that haven t evolved resistance will proliferate at the expense of the less fit resistant cells. When a large number of sensitive cells are killed, say, by aggressive therapies, resistant types can proliferate unconstrained.

Surely I had done nothing to cure them.

We have effective therapies now.

What do you think? Will psychiatry help?

I have a healing fluid in my left hand.

As a result of these advances in science and supportive care, the same chemotherapeutic drugs could be delivered much more intensively for children with select types and sub types of cancer. With selective intensification, cure rates began to increase steadily.

That impact is often direct and immediate but sometimes, subtle, diverse and long term, and noticeable only as changes set in motion.

87. Globalization offers major economic and social benefits, the most obvious being that it increases economic dynamism as market opportunities widen.

The actual number of people in need of such treatment has been estimated to be as much as seven times higher than that shown in treatment data.

Safe blood substitutes and new therapeutic options that make blood transfusion more effective would significantly improve treatment in challenging situations. Ultimately, that promises to save many lives.

Well, if we're going to do it for epilepsy, why the hell not try it for something else?

CO And that makes a difference.

It was a time when medicine was cheap and very ineffective.

We'd like to get therapies better and more effective.

The government has aligned its early antiretroviral treatment programs for existing sufferers, initiated in 2008, with early monitoring programs for pregnant women. New, more effective treatment to prevent tuberculosis, especially the multidrug resistant strains, has also helped.

UNICEF support to malaria prevention and control is focused on increasing the use of ITNs, community awareness and better access to effective treatment.

The quality treatment of drug resistant cases has been increased by some 50 per cent.

So the incentives are much larger to produce drugs which treat more people.

As a result, even evidence that a person s mood and clinical state has been significantly improved after ECT can be transformed into evidence of brain damage. When patients come forward to say they were helped by ECT, or a patient s medical record points to clinical improvement with treatment, the apparent improvements are read as indicating the disinhibition and vacuousness that accompanies brain damage.

There is no cure, but there's something that sometimes works it usually doesn't called high dosage interleukin.

This is a therapy that takes time to work.

Medicine is doing a better job of keeping us alive.

Now, there was a big effort to solve this problem, and there was actually a big solution.

But improved efficiency has its limits. Ultimately, the evidence suggests that societies spend ever larger fractions of their income on health over time, in contrast to food expenditures, for example, which fall as countries become wealthier.

That means that medical services simply are not available to people.

Within reason . That means another cheap dump!

In 1996, inconclusive clinical trials led US regulators to reject the drug. But when more detailed analysis of the data revealed potentially elevated benefits for black patients, a new trial was performed on 1,050 self identified black patients with severe heart failure for whom available treatments had proved ineffective.

That can't keep going on, because economic incentives and disincentives are very powerful.

The abject poverty of these women means that some of them are not even getting a proper diet needed to allow drug treatments to work effectively.

Not well enough?

Nothing happened except that I got jaundiced from one of these things.

So, I'm not free of all of this. But it's worked. It's always worked.