Management with medication has been shown to be the most cost-effective, followed by behavioral treatment and combined treatment.
The first trials of combined treatment were carried out in Malta in the 1970s.
The combined treatment of large intestine cancer is well-known in China.
Ten patients seemed to be tumour free endoscopically, and they all received combined treatment.
The increased toxicity of the combined treatment was, however, associated with raised cyclosporin A whole blood concentrations.
But advocates of the punishment method argue that their approach works where others have failed, and is more powerful and quicker than the combined treatments.
Each department provides the full range of combined treatment in a particular field.
Table 2 lists all statistically significant findings of a correlation between combined treatment and positive outcomes found in these two studies.
If all of them received the combined treatment, some 7,500 more people per year might survive for five years after treatment, a significant gain.
The combined treatment gave a greater response than either treatment alone, but the results were not entirely conclusive.
They conducted a double blind test and administered the combination treatment or placebo to adults for 28 days.
This held true whether they received immediate combination treatment or step-up therapy.
Future studies need to address many thorny questions about when to start combination treatment.
Such combination treatments work in the vast majority of cases and have yet to encounter resistance.
"If antidepressants alone don't work, combination treatment, including stress management, may help," Newman explains.
Early studies suggest an 80-90% response rate in psychotic depression with combination treatment.
Incivek is given for the first 12 weeks of combination treatment.
If one medicine can't lower your blood pressure, your doctor may try combination treatment for hypertension.
Studies show that many people get better control of blood pressure with combination treatment than with one drug.
Dr. Trimble said he expected the combination treatment to save thousands of lives a year.