But it does not provide a long-term cure, has serious side effects, and requires a long treatment time (12 to 18 months).

Glick stresses, too, that one should get the second opinion sooner, rather than later: "The first time you treat a patient is your best shot for a long-term cure or long-term control."

Though the benefits of gene therapy are theoretically large, none of the dozens of trials in the U.S. (or elsewhere) has achieved a long-term cure for any ailment.

Although each individual's case is different, the chances of Mrs. Reagan's long-term cure were apparently "in the 95 percent range," he said.

First, you stop the bleeding, they you develop a long-term cure.

Entrepreneurs Sought Steady growth is the only long-term cure for Ireland's national debt, unemployment and emigration.

A: Conventional medicines can be quite effective in terms of taking down the inflammation quickly, but they are not effective in achieving a long-term cure.

It is not the kind of treatment usually used on patients as sick as Ms. Saldana because it does not offer a long-term cure the way a bone-marrow transplant does.

It's no long-term cure, but a good quick fix.

Two months after Latrell Sprewell and Marcus Camby were on the verge of being declared busts, it is hard to say that they are long-term cures.