In these patients, the drug reduced the frequency of flare-ups and slowed the progression of disability.
Israeli officials said there could be no guarantee of zero bombings, but they asserted that the army's offensive had significantly reduced the frequency of Palestinian attacks inside Israel.
Vehicle safety firm Thatcham Research said existing technology such as Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) had already reduced the frequency of road accidents.
Late last year, Doubledown reduced its staff by more than a third, reduced the frequency of its magazines and asked top executives to take pay cuts.
Both presidents also reduced the frequency of the reconnaissance missions off Russia and ordered American submarines to maintain greater distances from Russian vessels.
The drug also reduced the frequency of disease exacerbations that required treatment with antibiotics.
The nurses reduced the frequency of calls to every 30 days for patients who had no problems and increased it to every 7 days for those who experienced important warning symptoms.
In a Texas case, for example, a federal judge said a worker with epilepsy could not be considered disabled because he was taking medications that reduced the frequency of seizures.
Medtronic, the industry leader, said software in its new device reduced the frequency of unnecessary shocks to the ventricle to 1.6percentt; ELA, based in Arvada, Colo., said it had achieved a level of just 0.1percentt in its trials.
Wildfire, in other words, "happens" with or without human assistance, although traditional Smokey-the-Bear-type fire prevention, which reduced the frequency of fires and thus preserved unnaturally large areas of old brush, made great firestorms more likely.
Oxcarbazepine (900 mg/day) reduced the frequency of headache attacks.
