Optometrists in Elkhorn City, KY Accepting Medicare
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 Mary Anne Belcher Od Psc Optometrist Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: 20 Spring Ave, Elkhorn City, KY 41522 Phone: 606-754-5775 Fax: 606-754-5775 |
 Mary Anne Belcher, O.D, Optometrist Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 20 Spring Ave, Elkhorn City, KY 41522 Phone: 606-754-5775 Fax: 606-754-5775 |
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Government dietary guidelines, unintended consequences and public policy
In the years following the government promotion of a low-fat diet, obesity in America has reached almost epidemic levels.
Retail clinics offer more treatments for chronic diseases
Retail health clinics are reevaluating their offerings. The Wall Street Journal reports: "Retail health clinics are adding treatments for chronic diseases such as asthma to their repertoire, hoping to find steadier revenue, but putting the clinics into greater competition with doctors' groups and hospitals."
Endoscopic ultrasound 99.1 percent accurate in diagnosing pancreatic neoplasms
Researchers from St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri report that EUS and EUS-FNA is 99.1 percent accurate in diagnosing pancreatic neoplasms (abnormal growths or tumors) in patients who were referred for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) because of CT and/or MRI reports of two common, though somewhat ambiguous findings - enlargement of head of pancreas (HOP) or dilation of the pancreatic duct (PD).
‘Nightmare bacteria' stalk U.S. hospitals
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detected more than 220 cases last year of a rare breed of "nightmare bacteria" that are virtually untreatable and capable of spreading genes that make them impervious to most antibiotics, according to a report released Tuesday.
Number of Cyberchondriacs increase to 175 million: 2010 Harris Poll
The latest Harris Poll, measuring how many people use the Internet to look for information about health topics, finds that the numbers continue to increase. The Harris Poll first used the word Cyberchondriacs to describe these people in 1998, when just over 50 million American adults had ever gone online to look for health information. By 2005, that number had risen to 117 million. In the new poll, the number of Cyberchondriacs has jumped to 175 million from 154 million last year, possibly as a result of the health care reform debate.
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