General Practice Doctors in Floyd, VA Accepting Medicare
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 Dr. Lorraine Marie French, M.D. General Practice Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 140 Christiansburg Pike, Tri-area Community Health At Floyd, Floyd, VA 24091 Phone: 540-745-9290 Fax: 540-745-9293 |
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Innovative treatment for cancer patients who have previously undergone chemotherapy, surgery or radiotherapy
At the inauguration of Hadassah's new day care center of the Sidney Weisner Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cancer Immunotherapy today, Prof. Shimon Slavin, head of the department, described an innovative treatment for cancer patients who have previously undergone chemotherapy, surgery and/ or radiotherapy.
Drug intervention may prevent heart damage caused by chemotherapy
There could be an intervention on the horizon to help prevent heart damage caused by the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, new research suggests.
Recent releases in Global Health
Global Fund Will Make 'Every Possible Effort' To Raise Additional Resources: Although pledges to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at its recent replenishment meeting did not meet "the lowest estimate of demand," the Fund "will make every possible effort to raise the additional resources that we expect countries to request in the years ahead" through new donor recruitment and "innovative financing approaches," writes Executive Director Michael Kazatchkine in a Lancet comment
Researchers set out to develop new imaging method to reduce risks linked with gallbladder removal surgery
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive procedure for gallbladder removal, and one of the most common surgical procedures worldwide. While the procedure has a very high success rate, 1 in 200 patients will sustain serious bile duct injury, primarily due to misidentification of the biliary anatomy. With 800,000 procedures carried out in the United States each year, that means in the U.S. alone 4,000 patients will be seriously injured.
Study reports longer survival for obese men with metastatic melanoma
Obese patients with metastatic melanoma who are treated with targeted or immune therapies live significantly longer than those with a normal body mass index, investigators report in a study published in Lancet Oncology of 1,918 patients in six independent clinical cohorts.
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