Pediatrics Doctors in South Boston, MA Accepting Medicare
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 Virginia Fitzgerald, MD Pediatrics Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: 409 W Broadway, South Boston, MA 02127 Phone: 617-269-7500 Fax: 617-464-7512 |
Nisha Thakrar, MD Pediatrics Medicare: Medicare Enrolled Practice Location: 409 W Broadway, South Boston, MA 02127 Phone: 617-269-7500 Fax: 617-464-7512 |
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Adolescent obesity linked with increased risk of pancreatic cancer later in life
New research has linked adolescent obesity with up to a four-fold increased risk of pancreatic cancer later in life.
Individualized decision between woman and her provider is the best choice for mammograms
The controversy around mammography emphasizes that the best decision on screening is made by a woman and her health care provider. Balancing a woman's individual medical history, risks, and concern level about breast cancer is a decision at the individual level using guidelines as a guide and not as something fixed in concrete," said Dr. Jane L. Delgado, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation's leading Hispanic health advocacy group.
Lawmaker questions regulators about preventive-care provisions in health law
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) has asked federal regulators to make sure new rules banning cost-sharing for preventive care don't inadvertently preclude employers from rewarding cost-effective care.
World health officials adopt global health strategy
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health was today endorsed by Member States at their annual Health Assembly in Geneva. The strategy addresses two of the major risk factors responsible for the heavy and growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which now account for some 60% of global deaths and almost half (47%) of the global burden of disease. NCDs include cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancers and obesity-related conditions.
Large NIH grant awarded to Dartmouth researchers for cooperative lung cancer project
Significant research funding in the form of a five-year, $12.1 million U19 Grant from the National Institutes of Health has been awarded to a collaboration of research teams co-led by Dartmouth's Christopher Amos, PhD, to study and improve precision of lung cancer risk and screening.
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