A four-month course of treatment has been the standard therapy since then.
Another round of standard therapy might help, he said, but not for long.
Then studies showed that the transplants were no better than standard therapy.
The improvement was seen among cases that had failed standard therapies.
It is a standard therapy for those of high aura.
Oftentimes, though, they are used in addition to standard medical therapy.
In it, the new treatment is compared directly with standard therapy.
There is a long way to go before it becomes standard therapy.
An unanswered question is: will it work any better than standard therapy?
Drugs are standard therapy for many illnesses of the elderly.