Critical Care Medicine Doctors in Jackson, MI Accepting Medicare

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Robert Durffee Albertson Iii, MD Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 900 E Michigan Ave, Ste 105, Jackson, MI 49201 Phone: 517-782-3190

Gregg Arthur Patten, MD Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 900 E Michigan Ave, Ste 105, Jackson, MI 49201 Phone: 517-782-3190    Fax: 517-782-1223

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New treatment approach may improve survival rates for certain patients with stage 4 lung cancer

A clinical trial that combined stereotactic body radiation therapy with a specific chemotherapy regimen more than doubled survival rates for certain stage 4 lung cancer patients, UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers report.

Study highlights the need to pay more attention on specific nutritional needs of female athletes

As poor nutrition can negatively affect everything from bone to reproductive health, more attention needs to be paid to the specific nutritional needs of female athletes, a collaborative study from New Zealand's University of Otago and University of Waikato argues.

Length of average Medicare-certified hospice stay in nursing home doubled: Study

Researchers at Brown University have found that the length of an average Medicare-certified hospice stay in a nursing home has doubled during the last 10 years. The study, which will appear in the August issue of The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, evaluated hospice use in U.S. nursing homes between 1999 and 2006. It found the typical treatment time has increased from 46 to 93 days. The researchers cited a standard daily payment rate for most Medicare hospice enrollment days as an incentive for some of the longer stays.

EEG patterns can predict schizophrenia patients' response to clozapine therapy

A commonplace electroencephalography (EEG) test may hold the key to predicting whether a person will respond to certain prescribed drugs, particularly those related to psychiatric conditions.In a study to be published by Clinical Neurophysiology, and now posted online, engineering and health sciences researchers at McMaster University applied machine learning to EEG patterns and successfully predicted how patients with schizophrenia would respond to clozapine therapy.

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