General Practice Doctors in Wilson, NC Accepting Medicare

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Phillip Kerry Perkins, MD General Practice Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 1700 Tarboro St W Ste 100, Wilson, NC 27893 Phone: 252-399-5314    Fax: 252-399-5315

Wesley Hunter Smith, General Practice Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 2806b Wooten Blvd Sw, Wilson, NC 27893 Phone: 252-315-6424    Fax: 252-991-0554

Mr. Michael J Feasel, MD General Practice Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 4435 Saddle Run Rd N, Wilson, NC 27896 Phone: 252-265-4612

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New uses for old medicines

It turns out that in the rush to invent new drugs to treat cancers, scientists may have overlooked some obvious possibilities of existing drugs currently being used for other diseases. A new study says that therapies for diabetes, inflammation and alcoholism, and even for dog arthritis, can also result in the successful killing of cancer cells in culture.

DASH diet also may cut risk for heart disease, stroke

Women who eat diets similar to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet -which is low in animal protein, moderate in low-fat dairy products and high in plant proteins, fruits and vegetables - appear to have a lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, according to a report in the April 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Researchers engineer revolutionary new approach to combat cancer treatment resistance

Math, biology and nanotechnology are becoming strange, yet effective bed-fellows in the fight against cancer treatment resistance. Researchers at the University of Waterloo and Harvard Medical School have engineered a revolutionary new approach to cancer treatment that pits a lethal combination of drugs together into a single nanoparticle.

FDA may set patient safety regulations for health IT

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund: "In the past two years, the agency has received reports of six patient deaths and several dozen injuries linked to malfunctions in the systems, Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in testimony prepared for a government hearing on Thursday. ... The FDA has been studying the issue for several years. Its latest concerns are surfacing as the government ramps up an ambitious plan to spend as much as $27 billion in stimulus money helping doctors and hospitals across the country purchase electronic medical records systems that rely on digital software rather than paper medical charts."

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