Licensed Practical Nurse in Loves Park, IL Accepting Medicare

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Rebecka Anne Whitehead, LPN Licensed Practical Nurse Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 5135 Rockberry Rd, Loves Park, IL 61111 Phone: 608-295-3662

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Children with chronic health conditions may face increased risk of physical abuse

Children with chronic health conditions are 88% more likely to suffer physical abuse than healthy children, according to research in the March issue of Acta Paediatrica. They are also 154% more likely to suffer a combination of physical abuse and exposure to intimate partner violence than their healthy school friends.

Potential Medicaid expansion would extend coverage to childless adults

In this Kaiser Health News story, produced in collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer, reporter Rick Schmitt looks at a part of the proposed Medicaid expansion.

UCSF awarded grant of $2.7M for collaborative project aimed at reducing premature births

UC San Francisco has been awarded a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant of $2.7 million over three years for a collaborative project aimed at reducing premature births.

Combination of cystic fibrosis drugs found to be safe and effective in children aged 2-5 years

An open label Phase 3 study conducted at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and other centers established that a combination of cystic fibrosis drugs lumacaftor and ivacaftor is safe and effective in children aged 2-5 years, whose disease is caused by two copies of F508del-CFTR gene mutation - the most common and severe form of cystic fibrosis.

Progestin in hormone therapy could dramatically affect heart attack severity

"One type of hormone therapy limited heart muscle damage to only 5 percent while another resulted in permanent damage to 35 percent of muscle," said J. Koudy Williams, Ph.D., lead investigator, from Wake Forest Baptist. "If we can learn more about this mechanism we might be able to identify better hormone therapies for postmenopausal women."

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