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A rapid point-of-care diagnostic test – coupled with a faster-acting treatment regimen – will so fundamentally change the way we treat tuberculosis that we can begin planning an elimination campaign.

20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011

So while carbon dioxide at first shifts relatively quickly to the faster-acting pools, levels of all pools besides mineral will remain somewhat elevated until the same amount of carbon has been remineralized as was subject to fossil fuel combustion.

Hansen: Obama has only four years to save the world - NASA Watch 2009

She has enrolled Kotey, 35, in free lessons on how to give herself insulin, persuaded her doctor to provide a faster-acting version, and found her a psychiatrist to treat her depression.

Insurers tout disease management programs, but critics are wary 2010

FDA officials have said that that product, a synthetic molecule, was deliberately added to heparin crude product in China to make the drug faster-acting, which increases its price.

China Never Investigated Tainted Heparin, Says Probe 2010

Tamoxifen skips some of current drugs 'biochemical steps and acts directly on the enzyme protein-kinase C, giving scientists a more direct target at which to aim new medications in their search for faster-acting treatments.

September 12th, 2007 2007

Experts attribute this improvement to the development of safer, faster-acting drugs and more sophisticated monitoring equipment that gauges the breathing rates, blood-oxygen levels, and even brain waves of sedated patients.

Painless Facts about Anesthesia 2008

Those alcohol-based products are much faster-acting and actually kill a lot more bacteria than any soap you can buy.

Q&A: Germ Expert 2007

And as scientists gain insight into how depression occurs in the brain, their findings are spurring research into an array of new treatments including faster-acting, more-effective drugs that could benefit those who struggle with what Winston Churchill called his "black dog."

Men & Depression: Facing Darkness 2007

The money will be used to develop faster-acting drugs.

CNN Transcript May 25, 2006 2006

Today new surgical techniques and instruments, particularly laser technologies, combined with lighter, faster-acting anesthesia and new postoperative medicines are enabling doctors to quickly and easily perform even the most complex fertility procedures, often right in their offices.

Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000