Emergency Medicine Doctors in Hiltonhead, SC Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Heather Hinshelwood, MD
Emergency Medicine
Medicare: Medicare Enrolled
Practice Location: 1403 Mainstreet, Hiltonhead, SC 29926
Phone: 407-637-0455    

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CLL aggressiveness linked to genetic variability

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NIAID finding to accelerate Chlamydia infection study

WHAT: In a new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, scientists describe successfully mutating specific genes of Chlamydia bacteria, which cause the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States as well as a type of blindness common in developing nations.

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Emergency Medicine


Emergency Medicine: An emergency physician focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the pre-hospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in the emergency department. The emergency physician provides immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization and disposition of a generally diversified population of adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.


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