... with unexplained infertility endure (and even request) expensive, potentially hazardous, and often unnecessary treatments."
They call for high quality clinical trials to guide policymakers and to ...
... as important, it identified those patients with aggressive disease, enabling them to avoid unnecessary treatment, such as surgery."
In the United States, imaging results from PET scans have also ...
... be on the safe side." Dutch researcher Stefan Visscher has developed a model that can quickly establish whether or not a patient has pneumonia. This can prevent unnecessary treatment with antibiotics.
... pneumonia, "to be on the safe side." Researchers have now developed a model that can quickly establish whether or not a patient has pneumonia. This can prevent unnecessary treatment with antibiotics.
... target treatment more accurately to those in need and avoid unnecessary treatment in men and women at low risk. I hope that this paper in Osteoporosis International will serve as a ...
Fertility clinics accused of misleading patients and encouraging unnecessary treatment by overstating dangers
... . One in three adults report their doctors ordered a test that had already been done or recommended unnecessary treatment or care in the past two years. Adults across all income groups reported ...
... for the right patient," Van Ness said. This approach offers the dual benefits of avoiding unnecessary treatment for patients less likely to respond to a particular drug, and targeting treatments to ...
... misdiagnosed as other acute diseases with similar clinical symptoms, and thus patients may undergo unnecessary treatment or tests. A research article to be published on December 7, 2008 in the World ...
... . Many men who are older than 75 undergo continued PSA screening, potentially leading to unnecessary treatment since death from other causes is more likely than death from prostate cancer.
The study ...
... that its cancer screening programmes
were putting young women at risk of dying, or undergoing
unnecessary treatment.Cancer experts have criticised the
government's 2003 decision to raise the age at ...
... of so many more men having to face a prostate cancer diagnosis and the side effects of unnecessary treatment, are weighed against the number of prostate cancer deaths that might be prevented.
...
... that are truly life-threatening, so that men with slow-growing tumors can avoid unnecessary treatments," says Andriole.
Today's results are the first to detail death rates from prostate cancer ...
... tough decisions about how aggressively to treat a patient's prostate cancer and minimize unnecessary treatment."
Cancer and cell biologists are working on identifying the molecular targets involved ...
... the other hand, children that do not actually suffer from chronic asthma should not receive unnecessary treatment and thus be exposed to potential harm. The certainty of the diagnosis is therefore of ...