Optometrists in Boston, NY Accepting Medicare
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 Dr. Charles Joseph Hornberger Sr., OD Optometrist Medicare: May Accept Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 8425 Boston State Road, Boston, NY 14025 Phone: 716-941-5585 Fax: 716-941-9281 |
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Researchers find increase in adverse birth outcomes due to high levels of pesticide exposure
Although common opinion holds that exposure to pesticides increases adverse birth outcomes, the existing body of scientific evidence is ambiguous. Logistical and ethical barriers - pesticide use data are not widely available and randomized control trials are impossible - have gotten in the way of more accurate conclusions.
Study shows how aging causes lung regeneration to go awry
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have identified the process by which stem cells in the airways of the lungs switch between two distinct phases - creating more of themselves and producing mature airway cells - to regenerate lung tissue after an injury.
Less risks for patients participating in early phase cancer drug trials
The risk of treatment-related (toxic) death for cancer patients enrolled in phase 1 clinical trials had decreased significantly over the past 12 years (from 1991 to 2002), according to an article in the November 3 issue of JAMA.
Enrollment complete in Boehringer Ingelheim's nintedanib phase III studies for IPF
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that clinical trial enrollment has completed for two phase III studies evaluating the safety and efficacy of nintedanib (BIBF 1120), an investigational compound, in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), being studied at a twice-daily oral dose.
Metabolic syndrome is the new 'silent killer', warn researchers
For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University make the case that metabolic syndrome - a cluster of three of more risk factors that include abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, abnormal lipids, and insulin resistance, a precursor of type 2 diabetes - is the new "silent killer," analogous to hypertension in the 1970s.
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