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Treaties of wartime puppet states

Treaties of wartime puppet states covers agreements among Axis client states such as Croatia, Slovakia, and Hungary, including the Vienna Awards, most of which were annulled after 1945.

Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases

The Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases (伤寒杂病论) is a Chinese medical work compiled by physician Zhang Zhongjing at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty.

Treatise on Food and Money

The Treatise on Food and Money (食货志) is the economic treatise of the Hanshu, compiled by Ban Gu in the first century AD, covering agriculture, currency, and commerce.

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: multi-volume reference on fossil invertebrate systematics, begun 1953 under Raymond C. Moore, published by the University of Kansas Paleontological Institute and Geological Society of America, with 55 open-access volumes and Treatise Online.

Treatise on Light

Treatise on Light (Traité de la Lumière) is a 1690 book by the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens arguing that light is a wave propagating through an ethereal medium.

Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom (Dazhidu lun)

The Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom (大智度論, Dazhidu lun) is a 100-fascicle Chinese Buddhist treatise attributed to Nāgārjuna and translated by Kumārajīva at Chang'an in 402–405.

Treatise on the Thirteen Provinces

The Treatise on the Thirteen Provinces (十三州志) is a lost ten-juan geographical treatise compiled by the scholar Kan Yin, surviving only as several hundred fragments recovered in the Qing dynasty.

Treatment Action Campaign v Minister of Health

Minister of Health and Others v Treatment Action Campaign and Others is a 2002 Constitutional Court of South Africa ruling ordering wider nevirapine access to prevent HIV transmission from mothers to children.

Treatment and biosecurity of chytridiomycosis

Treatment and biosecurity of chytridiomycosis covers the drug regimens, heat therapy, probiotics, and quarantine protocols used to clear chytrid fungal infections (Bd and Bsal) from amphibians, though many interventions have failed.

Treatment and outcomes of septic arthritis

Treatment of septic arthritis centers on prompt drainage plus targeted antibiotics, ideally within 24 hours. Arthroscopy outperforms open washout, and 90-day mortality reaches about 7%, higher in the elderly.

Treatment as prevention

Treatment as prevention (TasP) is an HIV prevention strategy in which antiretroviral therapy suppresses the viral load of people with HIV, preventing sexual transmission to partners.

Treatment Delay

Treatment delay is a longer than expected or desired time between the onset of symptoms and the start of therapy, a Medical Subject Heading descriptor introduced in 2024.

Treatment Expectations

Treatment expectations: anticipated outcomes of a healthcare treatment (MeSH D000099055, 2025). Positive expectations predict better pain, depression, and acupuncture outcomes; negative ones drive nocebo effects.

Treatment Failure

Treatment failure: unsuccessful result of medical management, a MeSH-indexed outcome since 1993. Defined per field: TB positive cultures at 4-5 months, clozapine-eligible schizophrenia, two failed antidepressant trials, and trial endpoints.

Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a phased, multi-drug program lasting roughly two to three years, combining chemotherapy with CNS-directed therapy, targeted antibodies, and engineered cell therapies.

Treatment of arachnophobia

Treatment of arachnophobia relies mainly on exposure-based therapy, which helps up to 90% of committed patients; one-session treatment packs graded exposure into a single three-hour session with a therapist.

Treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia begins only for symptomatic or progressive disease, using targeted drugs such as BTK inhibitors and venetoclax, which have largely replaced chemoimmunotherapy.

Treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) ranges from observation of single bone lesions to chemotherapy, BRAF inhibitors, or stem cell transplantation, with vinblastine plus prednisone standard in children.

Treatment of microsporidiosis

Treatment of microsporidiosis is the therapeutic management of human infections caused by microsporidia, resting on species-directed drugs such as albendazole, immune restoration with antiretroviral therapy, and supportive care.

Treatment of slaves in the United States

Treatment of slaves in the United States (American chattel slavery): forced labor under gang and task systems, whipping, sale threats, unrecognized marriages, and paternalist ideology, with about 3.2 million enslaved people by 1850.

Treatment of vespoid stings

Treatment of vespoid stings is the first aid and medical care for wasp, hornet, and yellowjacket stings: cleaning, cooling, antihistamines, and fast hospital care after many stings.

Treatment of women by the Taliban

Treatment of women by the Taliban: systematic restrictions on Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule 1996–2001 and since the August 2021 takeover, covering education, work, dress, movement, health care, and gender persecution findings.

Treatment Outcome

Treatment Outcome (MeSH D016896, introduced 1992): evaluation of results of disease management and procedures to determine efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability; covers endpoints like progression-free survival and treatment failure.

Treatment planning system

A treatment planning system (TPS) is computer software used in radiation oncology to design and simulate radiotherapy, planning external photon, electron, and proton beams plus brachytherapy.

Treatment Switching

Treatment switching: patients in a randomized clinical trial (MeSH heading, 2021) leave their assigned arm, usually control to experimental in oncology trials; ITT survival estimates become biased and methods like RPSFTM, IPE, IPCW, and two-stage estimation adjust for it.

Treatment-resistant depression

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is major depression unresponsive to at least two adequate antidepressant trials; no consensus definition exists, prevalence reaches about 15%, and key treatments include ECT, rTMS, and ketamine or esketamine.

Treaty

Treaty: a written international agreement governed by international law and intended to be legally binding (Vienna Convention 1969, art. 2(1)(a)); title irrelevant; registered under UN Charter article 102; UN Secretary-General depositary of 600+ multilateral treaties.

Treaty 1

Treaty 1, the Stone Fort Treaty, signed August 3, 1871 at Lower Fort Garry, is Canada's first post-Confederation Numbered Treaty, ceding 16,700 square miles of southern Manitoba to the Crown with 160-acre-per-family reserves and $3 annuities.

Treaty 10

Treaty 10, one of Canada's Numbered Treaties, was signed in 1906-07 by commissioner J.A.J. McKenna with Cree and Chipewyan peoples of northern Saskatchewan and part of Alberta, covering 222,220.98 km² in exchange for reserves, annuities, and harvesting rights.

Treaty 11

Treaty 11, Canada's last Numbered Treaty, signed 1921-1922 by H.A. Conroy with Slave, Dogrib, Loucheux and Hare nations, ceding about 372,000 square miles of the Mackenzie Valley.