The phrase "an attempt to treat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made to address or manage a particular issue, problem, or condition.
Example: "The researchers conducted an attempt to treat the disease using a new experimental drug."
Alternatives: "an effort to address" or "a try to manage".
Scientists have previously tried using antibodies derived from animals in an attempt to treat disease.
For me, veganism boils down to an attempt to treat all animals the way most people treat their pets.
Various forms of psychotherapy and nutrition therapy are used in an attempt to treat it in such cases.
He mistakes the protocols for cookbooks, when in fact, they are part of an attempt to treat based on evidence rather than personal experience.
This was also the first mention of an attempt to treat the disease — with a blood transfusion from the patient's twin brother.
Judge Watson wrote that the statements of Mr. Trump and his advisers made clear that his executive order amounted to an attempt to treat Muslims with disfavor.
A previous attempt to treat walls of a quantum system as mirrors in quantum billiard problem [11] yielded quite a complicated analytical form of the boundary conditions that made the solution of Schrödinger equation considerably more difficult.
Re "Lacking $2 Bus Fare to Shelter, Homeless Get a Free Ride, to Jail" (front page, May 4): Sending the homeless to jail for "fare-beating" is a poor attempt to treat the symptoms instead of the problem.
Exclusion criteria included use of PPI or H2 antagonists within the past 7 days, or a previous attempt to treat the cough with acid blockade.
In this study, the distribution of leucocyte populations and of cytokine-producing cells was investigated, using immunohistochemistry, in the spleen of a patient who steadily progressed to cure following splenectomy, performed as a final attempt to treat visceral leishmaniasis.
Equus, Shaffer's 1973 play about a psychiatrist's attempt to treat a young man obsessively fascinated with horses, was another major stage hit – it won a Tony award in 1975 and was revived in 2007 with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe in his first big theatre role, which became a successful film.
