Primary Care Clinics in Winneconne, WI Accepting Medicare
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 Ascension Medical Group Clinic/Center - Multi-Specialty Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 916 E Main St, Winneconne, WI 54986 Phone: 920-582-1100 |
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Majority of hospitalized patients with advanced cancer have functional impairment
New research from Mass General Cancer Center, published in the June 2020 issue of JNCCN-Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, found 40.2% of hospitalized patients with advanced, incurable cancer were functionally impaired at the time of admission, meaning they needed assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) like walking, bathing, getting dressed, or other routine tasks. Patients with functional impairment also had higher rates of pain, depression, and anxiety, and were more likely to have longer hospital stays and worse survival.
Cancer patients with low income and no insurance see fewer trial benefits
When it comes to benefiting from experimental treatments offered in cancer clinical trials, your health insurance status and where you live matters, according to results of two new research studies to be presented at the 2019 ASCO Quality Care Symposium, held September 6 and 7 in San Diego.
Smokers with lung disease require more than brief smoking cessation interventions
Although effective treatments for smoking cessation exist, and research has shown that patients who receive smoking cessation treatment are twice as likely to quit - limited insurance coverage, poor adherence to practice guidelines, lack of clinician training in smoking cessation, time constraints and inadequate clinic systems to easily identify and treat smokers have limited the availability and quality of smoking cessation treatment.
Women show a better response to lung cancer therapy, resulting in better survival rates
However, in untreated patients, women also had a 21 percent decreased risk of death as compared with men, leading researchers to believe lung cancer in women has a different biologic behavior and natural history than in men.
New tools in the fight against pneumococci
New tools in the fight against pneumococci - the bugs targeted by vaccines recently announced by the Department of Health - are described by a team led by scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
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