Sentence examples for devised to treat from inspiring English sources

Viagra, or sildenafil citrate, was devised to treat pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in arteries of the lungs.

On its Web site, the American Academy of Ophthalmology cautions that cosmetic iris implant surgery — which was originally devised to treat people whose iris did not develop normally, not for cosmetic reasons — can cause elevated pressure inside the eye that can lead to glaucoma, cataracts and corneal injury, as well as reduced vision or blindness.

yambo relies on efficient numerical techniques devised to treat systems with reduced dimensionality, or with a large number of degrees of freedom.

From 1861 [14] to the present, 60 different surgical procedures have been devised to treat acute and chronic AC joint dislocation, but finding the gold standard has proved an elusive task.

Although numerous procedures have been devised to treat ACL tears, they have limited cure rates.

A third therapeutic approved drug, nitisinone, originally devised to treat patients with hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 [ 82].

Methods were devised to address two questions.

Some doctors devised methods to treat shell shock victims — one German doctor tried electroshock to the limbs.

For decades doctors and scientists obsessed over one key factor in heart attacks–high cholesterol and devised drugs to treat it.

Its predecessor, DSM-4, is used in research worldwide, and has an influence, for example, in naming conditions that pharmaceutical companies devise drugs to treat.

"I also hope that politicians of all parties develop a better understanding of alcoholism, take it more seriously and devise policies to treat it as a disease on a par with the other major diseases.