Nurse Practitioner in Snead, AL Accepting Medicare
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 Lauren Loveless, CRNP Nurse Practitioner - Family Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: 180 Medical St, Snead, AL 35952 Phone: 205-386-4341 |
Bethany Jeannine Tucker, NURSE PRACTITIONER Nurse Practitioner - Family Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 180 Medical St, Snead, AL 35952 Phone: 205-386-4341 |
 Branden Sims, CRNP Nurse Practitioner - Family Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 180 Medical St, Snead, AL 35952 Phone: 205-386-4341 Fax: 205-623-1105 |
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"Knowledge deficit" about methadone responsible for resulting deaths
In a unique and comprehensive literature review of poisoning deaths involving opioids from 1999 - 2009, the deaths involving methadone were found to be disproportionately high. Methadone represented less than five percent of all opioid prescriptions but is responsible for a third of the deaths. After four years of investigation, the major underlying cause was found to be fundamental misunderstandings about the properties of the medicine - a "knowledge deficit" - especially when converting patients from other opioids.
Manganese in underground drinking water can be harmful to human health
Underground drinking water sources in parts of the U.S. and three Asian countries may not be as safe as previously thought due to high levels of manganese, especially at shallow depths, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside.
Blood levels of vitamin folate in women of childbearing age decreasing
From 1999 through 2004 there was an 8% to 16% decline in the level of the vitamin folate in the blood of U.S. women of childbearing age, according to a study published in the Jan. 5 issue of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports (Stobbe, AP/Houston Chronicle, 1/4).
A selection of today's opinions and editorials
Everyone has been trying to come up with a good nickname for the 10 years we're concluding next month. Terror Era really sounds like too much of a downer. How about the Decade of Medical Backtracking? Somewhere between the reports that Pap smears and tests for prostate cancer aren't all they were cracked up to be and the news that a high fiber diet doesn't do anything to prevent cancer, the health establishment began looking decidedly nonomniscient. Then this week, a federal task force reported that most women don't need annual mammograms (Gail Collins, 11/18).
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