Family Medicine Doctors in La Plata, MO Accepting Medicare
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 Dr. John T. Sylvara, DO Family Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 201 S Gex St, La Plata, MO 63549 Phone: 660-332-4312 Fax: 660-332-7996 |
Dr. George A. Pipes, D.O. Family Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 14982 Old Highway 63, La Plata, MO 63549 Phone: 660-332-7296 Fax: 660-332-7390 |
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Researchers look for surrogate endpoints to predict early benefit of cancer drugs
Great hopes are always placed in new cancer therapies. However, whether new surgical techniques, drugs or radiation therapies actually prolong the life of cancer patients, or even cure them, can often only be reliably assessed after several years' of testing. Researchers are therefore looking for proxy markers that after initiation of cancer therapy can reliably predict as quickly as possible whether the treatment has a benefit.
A British first, patient receives heart pump through groin, avoiding the need for surgery
A patient at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to receive an artificial heart pump inserted without the need for surgery.
NIDA announces 2012 recipient of Avant-Garde Award for Medications Development
Dr. Gary R. Matyas has been selected the 2012 recipient of the NIDA Avant-Garde Award for Medications Development. Matyas proposes to develop an effective, safe and easily manufactured combination anti-heroin/HIV vaccine that could treat heroin addiction while at the same time prevent HIV infection in those receiving the vaccine.
Treating domestic violence as a medical problem
Fanny Ortiz, a mother of five who lives just east of downtown Los Angeles, spent nearly a decade married to a man who controlled her and frequently threatened her. Then, she said, his abuse escalated. "He would physically hit me in the face, throw me on the wall," she recalled.
Drug-releasing stent shows promise for improving outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease
For patients who underwent angioplasty to open narrowed coronary arteries, the use of stents releasing the drug everolimus reduced the rate of renarrowing of the arteries and significantly reduced the risk of major cardiac events, compared to the widely-used paclitaxel-releasing stents, according to a study in the April 23/30 issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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