Registered Nurse in Oceanport, NJ Accepting Medicare
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 Virginia Pawlikowski, Registered Nurse - Lactation Consultant Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 46 Tecumseh Ave, Oceanport, NJ 07757 Phone: 732-865-3124 |
Mrs. Deborah Hall Sullivan, REGISTERED NURSE Registered Nurse - Nutrition Support Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 1000 Sanger Ave, Oceanport, NJ 07757 Phone: 917-836-0122 |
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Patients with Down syndrome face additional challenge of early-onset dementia
Individuals with Down syndrome who survive into adulthood face the additional challenge of early-onset dementia, in which toxic amyloid plaques build up in the brain. The condition is strikingly similar to Alzheimer's disease, and as new work led by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University shows, dementia in Down syndrome involves defects in a regulatory enzyme known as γ-secretase activating protein (GSAP), which also happens to malfunction in Alzheimer's disease.
Shorter HCV treatment shows notable success
Two new randomized controlled trials show that treating Hepatitis C (HCV) with peginterferon and ribavirin for shorter durations can yield success rates similar to those from longer treatment lengths, with cost-savings and lower risk of serious side effects.
Closing the 'cancer divide' between developing and developed countries
Noting "there is a huge 'cancer divide' between rich and poor," with more than half of new cancer cases and almost two-thirds of all cancer deaths occurring in developing countries, this year's World Cancer Day theme, "Together It Is Possible," "calls on all individuals, organizations and governments to do their part to reduce premature deaths from cancers by 25 percent by 2025," Felicia Knaul, secretariat for the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, and Jonathan Quick, president of Management Sciences for Health, write in a Huffington Post opinion piece.
NHC applauds IOM for recommendations on how to develop EHB package
The National Health Council (NHC) applauded the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for its thoughtful recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on how to develop an essential health benefits (EHB) package.
Oncolytic viruses may one day help treat brain tumors
New research shows that a virus designed to kill cancer cells can significantly increase the survival of mice with an incurable human brain tumor, even in some animals with advanced disease.
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