Psychiatry & Neurology Doctors in Buena Park, CA Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Gamini Jayasinghe, M.D. Psychiatry & Neurology - Psychiatry Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 8522 Travistuck Pl, Buena Park, CA 90621 Phone: 714-523-8191    Fax: 714-899-4275

Concepcion R Mangasep, M. D. Psychiatry & Neurology - Psychiatry Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 7661 Puerto Rico Dr, Buena Park, CA 90620 Phone: 213-422-2920    Fax: 818-670-7892

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New VA regulation helps to get recognition, treatment for three disorders in Agent Orange exposure

A new VA regulation adding three health conditions to the list of those presumed to have been caused by exposure to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War was published this week. Pending a 60-day congressional review, the regulation will make some 200,000 veterans eligible for VA benefits over the next year and a half.

Musicians can develop saxophone lung from fungus

Reed instruments, such as the clarinet and saxophone, can be detrimental to your health if not properly cleaned. In a study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology's Annual Scientific Meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 7-11, researchers noted that musicians can develop allergic pulmonary disease to specific funguses that collect over time in the instrument's reed.

Authors urge importance of patients' rights in genome sequencing

Informed consent is the backbone of patient care. Genetic testing has long required patient consent and patients have had a "right not to know" the results. However, as 21st century medicine now begins to use the tools of genome sequencing, an enormous debate has erupted over whether patients' rights will continue in an era of medical genomics.

Opinions: Questioning WHO's relevance; Reforming foreign aid; Efforts to prevent child marriage

"The WHO - for 62 years the world's go-to agency on all public health matters - is today outmoded, underfunded, and overly politicized," Jack Chow, former assistant director-general on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria at WHO, writes in a Foreign Policy Argument where he outlines some of the major issues facing the WHO, including personnel challenges, the agency's "archaic" governance system and a "new atmosphere, where [other] organizations are taking health into their own hands."

Given Imaging introduces new PillCam system at GASTRO 2009 Conference

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