Pulmonary Disease Doctors in Tulare, CA Accepting Medicare

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Jatinder Chopra, M.D. Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 858 N Cherry St, Suite E, Tulare, CA 93274 Phone: 559-686-4766    Fax: 559-686-2016

Saqib Rashid, M.D. Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 943 N Gem St, Tulare, CA 93274 Phone: 559-684-8156    Fax: 559-684-8198

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More must be done to find balance between drug innovation, affordable health care

"The decision by India's Supreme Court to overturn the patent on Novartis's cancer treatment Glivec is good news for more affordable health care and bad news for drug innovation," a Financial Times editorial states, adding, "It fails fundamentally to address either issue, both of which need wide-ranging reform.

Combining pain medicine with metal ions could destroy drug-resistant cancer cells

Fighting chemoresistant cancer remains a huge challenge that scientists are tackling from as many angles as they can. One alternative approach involves pairing two groups of compounds - pain medicine and metal ions - that have individually shown promise as anti-cancer agents. Scientists report in the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry that combining the two led to new compounds that could destroy drug-resistant cancer cells and leave most normal cells alone in lab tests.

Medicare drug benefit appears to help more seniors with heart failure

The Medicare drug benefit may be helping more older Americans with heart failure get the medications recommended for controlling the disease, a new study finds. The study, of nearly 7,000 older heart failure patients in one large insurance plan, found that the number of filled prescriptions for standard heart failure medications increased after the Medicare drug benefit kicked in in 2006. The biggest increase was seen among seniors who had previously lacked any form of drug coverage.

$100,000 needed to analyze '$1,000' genetic data

Advances in technology have almost lifted the curtain on the long-awaited era of the "$1,000 genome" - a time when all the genes that make up a person can be deciphered for about that amount - compared to nearly $1 million a few years ago.

Older people fail to recognise the signs of cardiac arrest

An Australian study has found a disturbing number of older people fail to recognise the signs of cardiac arrest and do not know what to do in the event of such an emergency.

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