Family Medicine Doctors in Pittsburg, PA Accepting Medicare
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 Dr. Merry Katherine Demko, M.D. Family Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 1984 Greentree Road, Pittsburg, PA 15220 Phone: 412-343-3627 Fax: 815-285-8903 |
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Polls: Most don't support health law repeal; doctors, too, are uninformed
A majority of Americans don't want Congress to repeal the health law but believe its implementation is going poorly, according to a United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection poll. Meanwhile, a survey of physicians concludes they are unfamiliar with how the overhaul will work.
New consensus guidelines for treatment of plaque psoriasis
To assist the millions of Americans living with psoriasis, the most common autoimmune disease in the country, the National Psoriasis Foundation published the most recent guidelines in the United States for the management of plaque psoriasis—the most prevalent form of the disease, affecting roughly 80 percent of people with psoriasis.
Protein synaptotagmin-IV helps maintain an efficient brain
The instruction manual for maintaining an efficient brain may soon include a section on synaptotagmin-IV (Syt-IV), a protein known to influence learning and memory, thanks to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Texas Gov. Perry signs abortion restrictions into law; fights still likely
Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed controversial abortion restrictions into law Thursday, even as abortion-rights supporters readied challenges and said the law will force all five of the state's abortion providers to close. Reuters, in the meantime, reports why that might not be true.
Researchers identify mechanism that leads to ischemia-reperfusion damage
For patients with incurable pulmonary conditions, a lung transplantation is the only available treatment option. However, suitable donor organs are scarce, and even getting them to prospective recipients is not easy. As Professor Alexander Dietrich of the Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at LMU explains, "An isolated lung which is no longer perfused with blood can become so severely damaged that it is no longer functional. This so-called ischemia-reperfusion injury is one of the major problems in the field of lung transplantation."
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