Physician Assistant in Gretna, VA Accepting Medicare

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Miss Jenifer Kelli Hoffert, P.A.
Physician Assistant
Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare
Practice Location: 1220 W Gretna Rd, Gretna, VA 24557
Phone: 434-656-1274    

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Strategy for harnessing physics for health

Following a workshop hosted by the CERN European particle physics laboratory in February, doctors and physicists today published a strategy for harnessing physics for health. Techniques developed for physics research have a long history of application in medicine. Today's news recognises that synergy, and sets out a programme of strengthened collaboration.

Female chronic pain sufferers who catastrophize more likely to take prescribed opioids

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Acute heart failure patients often have high levels of red meat metabolite

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Probactive Biotech, Dalat Nuclear Research Institute enter agreement to co-develop cancer drugs

Probactive Biotech, Inc., a Garden Grove, California-based corporation, has entered into an agreement with Dalat Nuclear Research Institute to co-develop a number of cancer drugs, utilizing combinations of antitumor antibodies and antitumor radioactive compounds. Antitumor antibodies have the ability to take antitumor compounds directly to the tumor sites within the body.

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Physician Assistant: A physician assistant is a person who has successfully completed an accredited education program for physician assistant, is licensed by the state and is practicing within the scope of that license. Physician assistants are formally trained to perform many of the routine, time-consuming tasks a physician can do. In some states, they may prescribe medications. They take medical histories, perform physical exams, order lab tests and x-rays, and give inoculations. Most states require that they work under the supervision of a physician.



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