41.   Patients receiving standard medical treatments should not abandon those in favor of acupuncture without first consulting the prescribing doctor.

42.   Patients have been attracted to those studies because they were guaranteed the experimental treatment, whereas in a clinical trial they might be assigned the standard treatment.

43.   Perhaps the biggest unanswered question is whether estrogen is more effective than the standard treatments for postpartum depression, namely antidepressants and psychotherapy.

44.   Peripheral nerves are being produced that repair animal nerve damage to degrees that far surpass the standard treatments.

45.   Prior to approval of the drug, the standard treatment for lung infections was to hospitalize patients and put them on intravenous antibiotics.

46.   Seiler wrote that about one in four patients with blocked coronary arteries did not benefit from bypass surgery or angioplasty, the standard treatments.

47.   Standard treatment.

48.   Standard treatments have included oils and moisturizers, cortisone creams and prescriptions including steroids, coal tars and ultraviolet light.

49.   Standard preventive treatments are anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, that reduce swelling or inflammation of the lining of the airways.

50.   Standard treatment involves antiviral drugs that can speed the course of the virus and reduce symptoms.