Family Medicine Doctors in Ideal, GA Accepting Medicare

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Christopher Richards, M.D.
Family Medicine
Medicare: Medicare Enrolled
Practice Location: 201 Poplar St, Ideal, GA 31041
Phone: 478-244-2866    Fax: 404-478-8420

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Free skin cancer screenings for local community

The John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center's Cutaneous Malignancies Program has partnered with The Promise Foundation to host a skin cancer screening event on Thursday, June 2 from 10am -5pm. This program will feature educational information on skin cancer prevention and offer free skin cancer screenings by appointment only for the community.

Some clinical trials may promote use of ineffective and costly treatments, researchers say

A new paper published by McGill University researchers in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that some clinical trials may promote the use of ineffective and costly treatments. That's the opposite of what clinical trials are aimed at, namely preventing ineffective and costly treatments from being taken up by physicians and patients.

H1N1 is now most dominant flu strain worldwide, WHO says

The H1N1 (swine flu) virus is now the dominant flu strain worldwide, the WHO reported Thursday, with the virus accounting for up to 70 percent of the flu viruses sampled in some countries, the Associated Press reports.

Non-profit consortium, USAID announce new agreement focusing on African food security

The non-profit Partners in Food Solutions (PFS), a consortium of General Mills, Cargill and DSM, on Thursday announced a new agreement with USAID that "will enable PFS to expand the reach of the technical and business expertise it provides to small and growing food processors in sub-Saharan Africa," according to a PFS press release.

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Family Medicine: Family Medicine is the medical specialty which is concerned with the total health care of the individual and the family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine is not limited by age, sex, organ system, or disease entity.


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