Leslie Michelle Pack, RN Registered Nurse Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 270 W Kansas St, Van, TX 75790 Phone: 903-368-5334 |
Nancy Kathryn Hopper, Registered Nurse Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 1362 Fm 314, Van, TX 75790 Phone: 903-504-6835 |
News Archive
Omeros Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing products focused on inflammation and disorders of the central nervous system, today announced that a compound identified by the Company as an antagonist of GPR87, an orphan GPCR recently unlocked for drug development by Omeros and linked to squamous cell carcinoma, potentiates the tumor-killing activity of doxorubicin (Adriamycin), a widely used chemotherapeutic agent.
The experimental heart failure drug omecamtiv mecarbil reduced heart failure hospitalizations by a greater margin among patients with more severely reduced ejection fraction, a measure indicating severe impairment in the heart's pumping ability, compared with those who had moderately reduced ejection fraction, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 70th Annual Scientific Session.
While Americans remain divided over the new health reform law, "they aren't clamoring for its repeal. … Instead, the public seems willing to listen to candidates who would give the overhaul a chance and fix or improve it as needed. That's the signal from some surveys and a congressional race in a bellwether Pennsylvania district."
Stony Brook University Medical Center has received the 2009 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.
In health care reform discussions, talk inevitably turns to making hospitals and physicians accountable for patient outcomes. But in a commentary being published in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Johns Hopkins patient safety expert Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., argues that the health care industry doesn't yet have measurable, achievable and routine ways to prevent patient harm — and that, in many cases, there are too many barriers in the way to attain them.
› Verified 9 days ago