Family Medicine Doctors in Nett Lake, MN Accepting Medicare
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 Shanna Rachelle Vidor, M.D. Family Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 5219 St John Drive, Nett Lake, MN 55772 Phone: 218-757-3295 |
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Apathy linked to increased risk of death in nursing home patients
In a study of nursing home patients, apathy was linked with an increased risk of dying over a 4-month period, even after controlling for depression. The study also found that apathy was present in half of nursing home patients.
LSD1 enzyme turns off genes needed to maintain cancer stem cell properties in glioblastoma
Cancer's ability to grow unchecked is often attributed to cancer stem cells, a small fraction of cancer cells that have the capacity to grow and multiply indefinitely. How cancer stem cells retain this property while the bulk of a tumor's cells do not remains largely unknown. Using human tumor samples and mouse models, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center discovered that cancer stem cell properties are determined by epigenetic changes - chemical modifications cells use to control which genes are turned on or off.
Periodontal examination can determine risk of diabetes
A recent study published in the Journal of Dental Research at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine (CDM) and backed by The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation amongst others; found that a pre-diabetes determination can be made by simply going to the dentist.
Researchers turn fatal brain cancer into treatable disease for children
Some children with a rare brain tumor that is considered almost universally fatal can be saved if they receive radiation therapy followed by tandem (given one after the other) cycles of high-dose chemotherapy.
Interventions aimed at preventing, treating pneumonia in children need to be expanded in developing world
"This month, USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) joins countries around the world in celebrating International Children's Day," Dyness Kasungami, a child health team leader for MCHIP, writes in the Huffington Post Blog, adding, "While great strides in child survival have been made in the past years, we also remember those children who do not live to see their fifth birthday - the 7.6 million children who die of preventable causes each year."
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