Infectious Disease Doctors in East Orange, NJ Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Nabeel Obaid, MD
Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease
Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare
Practice Location: 310 Central Ave, Suite 102, East Orange, NJ 07018
Phone: 201-512-9494    
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Dr. Alexander G Vandevelde, MD
Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease
Medicare: Medicare Enrolled
Practice Location: 385 Tremont Ave, East Orange, NJ 07018
Phone: 973-676-1000    

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The pressing need to save the lives of women and newborns in India

In this post on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, the second in a multi-week series, Joy Lawn, director of Evidence and Policy for the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children, and Kate Kerber, the Africa regional specialist with Saving Newborn Lives at Save the Children U.S., "explore the pressing need - and what our partners are doing to address the need - to save the lives of women and newborns in India,".

Amygdala plays central role in generating fear reactions in humans too

A new study, published online on December 16 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offers new insight into the emotional life of a unique individual who completely lacks the function of an almond-shaped structure in the brain known as the amygdala. Studies over the last 50 years have shown that the amygdala plays a central role in generating fear reactions in animals from rats to monkeys.

Anterior insular cortex associated with human empathy

An international team led by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York has for the first time shown that one area of the brain, called the anterior insular cortex, is the activity center of human empathy, whereas other areas of the brain are not. The study is published in the September 2012 issue of the journal Brain.

Many children admitted with mental health problems mistaken for physical disease

Many children are admitted to general acute wards with mental health problems mistaken for physical disease.

MRI analysis software helps identify early Alzheimer's disease

Analyzing MRI studies of the brain with software developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may allow diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and of mild cognitive impairment, a lesser form of dementia that precedes the development of Alzheimer's by several years.

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Infectious Disease: An internist who deals with infectious diseases of all types and in all organ systems. Conditions requiring selective use of antibiotics call for this special skill. This physician often diagnoses and treats AIDS patients and patients with fevers which have not been explained. Infectious disease specialists may also have expertise in preventive medicine and travel medicine.


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