Optometrists in Albany, KY Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Gary Walter Upchurch, OD Optometrist Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 127 Foothills Ave Ste 3, Albany, KY 42602 Phone: 606-387-5612    Fax: 606-387-6602

Vision Care Of Albany Inc. Optometrist Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 256 Burkesville Rd, Albany, KY 42602 Phone: 606-307-2732

Associates In Eye Care, Inc. Optometrist Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 127 Foothills Ave, Suite 3, Albany, KY 42602 Phone: 606-387-5612    Fax: 606-387-6602

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Electrical stimulation of the brain may help preserve visual neurons from cell death after injury

Electrical stimulation of the brain by applying current to the eye may help retinal nerve cells to survive injury. While these neurons may not be restored to full function, they are prevented from dying. But to achieve survival, their interconnections, the dendritic tree, needs to disconnect rapidly for the protective action to unfold.

Research explores effect of DBS treatments in animals with brain injuries

The research, published in Behavioural Brain Research, was conducted by Pilar Segura and Ignacio Morgado (coordinators), Laura Aldavert and Marc Ramoneda, psychobiologists of the Institute of Neurosciences and the Department of Psychobiology and Health Sciences Methodology of the UAB and by Elisabet Kadar and Gemma Huguet, molecular biologists of the University of Girona, to explore the power of Deep Brain Stimulation treatments in the hypothalamus to recover the ability to learn and remember after a severe lesion of the amygdala.

A.M. Best upgrades FSR and ICR for ODSHP

A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to B++ (Good) from B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) to "bbb" from "bbb-" of ODS Health Plan, Inc. (ODSHP), a subsidiary of Oregon Dental Service.

Genetic variation can predict how people infected with hepatitis C react to treatment: Scientists

A small genetic change can predict how people infected with hepatitis C react to treatment, paving the way to personalised therapy for this difficult to treat disease, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear today (Sunday 13 June). Dr. Zoltan Kutalik, from the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, will tell delegates that individuals with this change, in a gene encoding for the antiviral cytokine (cell-signalling molecule) interferon lamda, reacts less well to treatment.

Energy drinks jolt children, adolescents with too much caffeine

When children aged 10-14 consume energy drinks, one in five consumes too much caffeine. When their caffeine intake from other sources such as cola and chocolate is included, every second child and more than one in three adolescents aged 15-17 consume too much caffeine.

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