Internal Medicine Doctors in Douglassville, PA Accepting Medicare
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 Joelle R Lauchner, DO Internal Medicine Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 957 Benjamin Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA 19518 Phone: 610-898-9370 |
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Study of neuroprotective microRNAs may lead to new avenues for treating tauopathies
Alzheimer's disease is an increasingly prevalent, neurodegenerative condition that erodes memory and other cognitive functions. Treatments for this complex disease have been elusive, although researchers have previously uncovered its main biological features: amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles.
Prescription Solutions introduces Clinical Vantage to improve health and well-being of members
Prescription Solutions, a leading pharmacy benefit management organization and a UnitedHealth Group company, has launched Clinical Vantage, a suite of clinical programs that enables clients to create specialized solutions to meet their particular needs to improve the health and well-being of members.
FISH assay identifies only few lung cancer patients who could benefit from crizotinib
Break apart a couple worm-like chromosomes and they may reconnect with mismatched tips and tails - such is the case of the EML4-ALK fusion gene that creates 2-7 percent of lung cancers. Almost exactly a year ago, the FDA approved the drug crizotinib to treat these ALK+ lung cancer patients, who were likely never smokers. Informed doctors use the test called a FISH assay to check for the EML4-ALK fusion gene, and then if the test is positive, ALK+ patients benefit greatly from crizotinib.
World Bank to strengthen social safety net programs to support those in developing world vulnerable to economic volatility
"The World Bank plans to strengthen its social safety net to help the 60 percent of people in the developing world who lack adequate protection from the impact of global financial volatility and rising food and fuel prices," Bloomberg reports.
Study: Most emergency department patients wish to be involved in medical decision-making
Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to be invited. These are the primary findings of a study to be published in the July 2018 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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