Nurse Practitioner in Montpelier, VA Accepting Medicare
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 Ms. Karen K Milstead, FNP Nurse Practitioner - Family Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 16644 Mountain Rd, Montpelier, VA 23192 Phone: 804-883-5374 |
Mrs. Stacy Lee Riedt, FNP-BC Nurse Practitioner - Family Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 17112b Mountain Rd, Montpelier, VA 23192 Phone: 804-883-0046 Fax: 804-883-0048 |
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Bayer and Onyx announce Phase 3 trial evaluating use of NEXAVAR for patients with HCC after local ablation
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an Amgen subsidiary (Nasdaq: AMGN), today announced that a Phase 3 trial evaluating the investigational use of NEXAVAR® (sorafenib) tablets as an adjuvant treatment for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver cancer, who had no detectable disease after surgical resection or local ablation, did not meet its primary endpoint of improving recurrence-free survival.
Gene regulation rather than genes make us unique
Once the human genome was sequenced in 2001, the hunt was on for the genes that make each of us unique. But scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and Yale and Stanford Universities in the USA, have found that we differ from each other mainly because of differences not in our genes, but in how they're regulated - turned on or off, for instance.
Rapid weather variability could increase risk of a flu epidemic
New research from a team of Florida State University scientists shows that rapid weather variability as a result of climate change could increase the risk of a flu epidemic in some highly populated regions in the late 21st century.
Balanced approach needed to fight cholera outbreaks in Haiti
Jason Nickerson, a respiratory therapist and doctoral candidate in Population Health at the University of Ottawa, in this Global Health Hub post, recounts recent controversy surrounding "the health and humanitarian response to the earthquake and cholera outbreaks" in Haiti, noting tension "between the provision of [a cholera] vaccine as opposed to spending the money on improvements to water and sanitation" in the country.
Rates of infant immunization with pertussis-containing vaccine do not increase with epidemic
Conventional wisdom holds that when the risk of catching a disease is high, people are more likely to get vaccinated to protect themselves.
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