Therapy, electroconvulsive
See Electroconvulsive therapy.
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- Therapy, electroshock
See Electroconvulsive therapy.
- Therapy, estrogen replacement (ERT)
a form of therapy with estrogen hormones most commonly used to treat the symptoms of menopause. It reduces or stops the short-term changes of menopause such as hot flashes, disturbed sleep, and vaginal dryness. Estrogen replacement therapy is thought to help prevent osteoporosis, a consequence of lowered estrogen levels. Estrogen therapy has more recently been […]
- Therapy, external beam radiation
Radiation focused from a source outside the body on the affected area (a cancer) within the body. It’s much like getting a diagnostic x-ray, but using a more potent x-ray beam and giving it over a longer period of time per dose with usually multiple doses given over multiple days.
- Therapy, fever
Using abnormal elevations in body temperature as a tool to treat disease. This was done in the past by deliberately raising the patient’s temperature to cause fever. Fever therapy was pioneered by the Austrian neuropsychiatrist Julius Wagner von Jauregg (1857-1940). He inoculated the malarial parasite into patients with dementia paralytica, the third and final stage […]
- Therapy, gene
adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency. In late October of 1999 the U.S. moved to require the disclosure of the results of gene therapy. The move by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee came 6 weeks after the death of an 18-year-old Arizona man, Jesse Gelsinger, who was apparently the first person to die as a result of […]