Mental Health Clinics in Brasstown, NC Accepting Medicare
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 Medmark Treatment Centers Murphy Community/Behavioral Health Agency Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: 7540 Highway 64 W, Brasstown, NC 28902 Phone: 828-837-5335 Fax: 214-550-2638 |
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Humanitas Clinic treats first cancer patient using TrueBeam technology
A 54-year-old head & neck cancer patient has become the first person in Italy to be treated using a revolutionary new linear accelerator that can deliver radiotherapy twice as fast as conventional therapy machines. The Humanitas Clinic in Rozzano-Milan carried out the treatment last week, becoming only the third hospital in Europe to begin clinical treatments using TrueBeam from Varian Medical Systems.
New path involving "innocent spectators" to defeat systemic sclerosis
There is a new path to defeat systemic sclerosis, also called scleroderma because of the hardening of the skin of the patients (from Greek skleros, "hard", and derma, "skin"). This path involves the B-cell of the immune system, so far only considered "innocent spectators," as Catholic University rheumatologist Gianfranco Ferraccioli, among the authors of the important research, puts it.
Study shows that people who reach their nineties have improved mental performance
People who reach their nineties today show improved mental performance compared to people in the same age group born a decade earlier, according to the results of a study conducted in Denmark and published in The Lancet.
Health systems must prepare for aging population living with HIV
"Many health systems are not ready to cope with the relatively new phenomenon" of people living with HIV (PLHIV) growing older, PlusNews reports. "Data on aging with HIV is largely restricted to the developed world and very little is known about older Africans living with virus, despite the high caseload in this region," the news service writes, adding, "A July 2012 supplement of the medical journal, AIDS, notes that an estimated three million people in sub-Saharan Africa aged 50 and older are HIV-positive - 14 percent of all infected adults.
Universal testing of asymptomatic pregnant women may not be necessary, study suggests
A study conducted by investigators at Cedars-Sinai suggests that universal testing of asymptomatic pregnant women in labor may not be necessary at every hospital.
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