Geriatric Medicine Doctors in Glenview, IL Accepting Medicare

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Kim Cecilia Leung-stone, M.D. Internal Medicine - Geriatric Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 2501 Compass Rd, Suite 100, Glenview, IL 60026 Phone: 847-901-5200    Fax: 847-904-4917

Alan Martin Smookler, MD Internal Medicine - Geriatric Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 2180 Pfingsten Rd., Kellogg Cancer Center, Glenview, IL 60025 Phone: 847-503-4222    Fax: 247-503-4220

Victoria L. Braund, MD Internal Medicine - Geriatric Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 2050 Pfingsten Rd Ste 200, Glenview, IL 60026 Phone: 847-503-2222    Fax: 847-503-2228

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Study extends scientific understanding of how pheromones activate the vomeronasal organ

The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is one of evolution's most direct enforcers. From its niche within the nose in most land-based vertebrates, it detects pheromones and triggers corresponding basic-instinct behaviors, from compulsive mating to male-on-male death matches. A new study from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, published online in Nature Neuroscience on July 29, 2012, extends the scientific understanding of how pheromones activate the VNO, and has implications for sensory transduction experiments in other fields.

Researchers discover unknown enzyme in pathogens responsible for African sleeping sickness

The life-threatening African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, is caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei. A team at the Biocentre of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, studies the pathogens and has now reported exciting news: The trypanosomes have a so far unknown enzyme which does not exist in humans and other vertebrates. This makes it a promising target for therapy.

Vanderbilt offers first FDA-approved bionic eye for treatment of retinitis pigmentosa

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been chosen as one of 12 sites in the United States to offer the first FDA-approved bionic eye for the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

Lay people can effectively use defibrillators to save the lives of cardiac arrest victims

The first large-scale study to see whether trained volunteers and lay people can use defibrillators to save the lives of cardiac arrest (CA) victims has concluded that their use by lay people is safe, and if the response time can be shortened to within eight minutes there is the potential to save the lives of 15 out of 100 people who collapse suddenly with CA.

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