Family Medicine Doctors in Polk, PA Accepting Medicare
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 Dr. Edward J Ausman, D.O. Family Medicine Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: Polk Center, 100 Lakewood Circle, Polk, PA 16342 Phone: 814-432-0471 Fax: 814-432-0179 |
 Dr. Carol Couvrette, M.D. Family Medicine Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 100 Lakewood Circle, Polk Center, Polk, PA 16342 Phone: 814-432-0446 |
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Indiscriminate expensive imaging has little clinical benefit in patients requiring epidural steroid injections
Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays only a small role in a doctor's decision to give these epidural steroid injections (ESIs), the most common procedure performed at pain clinics in the United States.
Low literacy can shorten life
Not being able to read doesn't just make it harder to navigate each day. Low literacy impairs people's ability to obtain critical information about their health and can dramatically shorten their lives.
Blood samples can soon reflect a person's lifestyle
People who use moist snuff 'snus' have significantly higher levels of the protein cornulin in their blood than non-snusers. This previously unknown relationship was found in a new study from Umeå University, Sweden. Whether higher levels per se increase the risk of disease has, however, not yet been clarified.
Fruit fly and malaria mosquito sensors attuned to heat, chemical odors
Fruit flies and mosquitoes share similar sensory receptors that allow them to distinguish among thousands of sensory cues - particularly heat and chemical odors - as they search for food or try to avoid danger, researchers from Boston College and Brandeis University report in the current electronic edition of the journal Nature.
WHO executive board meeting discusses global initiative to fund research of diseases that affect developing countries
"Hopes for a global convention aimed at kick starting research and development programs on diseases that particularly affect developing countries have been reignited after a meeting of the World Health Organization's executive board," BMJ reports.
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