Surgery Doctors in League City, TX Accepting Medicare

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Roman V Petrov, MD Surgery Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 2280 Gulf Fwy S, League City, TX 77573 Phone: 832-505-4000

Dr. Patrick Joseph Wallace, M.D. Surgery Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 2240 Gulf Fwy S Ste 2.100, League City, TX 77573 Phone: 832-505-1800

Charles Polsen, M.D. Surgery - Surgery of the Hand Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 2622 Marina Bay Drive, League City, TX 77573 Phone: 281-538-6600    Fax: 281-535-2800

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Physicians warn parents on dangers of prescription drug abuse among children

With reports of increased prescription drug overdoses in emergency departments, the nation's emergency physicians are issuing a strong warning to parents about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs, which are now the second most abused drugs, after marijuana. Hospital visits caused by accidental and unintentional prescription drug overdoses went up 37 percent between 1999 and 2006, according to new data released by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Physicians come together for single-payer national health insurance reform

In a dramatic show of physician support for deeper health reform - and for making a decisive break with the private insurance model of financing medical care - 2,231 physicians called today [Thursday, May 5] for the creation of a publicly financed, single-payer national health program that would cover all Americans for all medically necessary care.

Natural childbirth makes mothers more responsive to own baby-cry

A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery (CSD) were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans two to four weeks after delivery.

AFREZZA Inhalation Powder reduces incidence of hypoglycemia in patients with Type 1 diabetes

Diabetes treatment regimens containing AFREZZATM (insulin human [rDNA origin]) Inhalation Powder, a well-tolerated, ultra rapid acting insulin, provide glucose control similar to standard insulin therapy along with weight loss and reduced incidence of hypoglycemia in patients with Type 1 diabetes and poorly controlled blood sugar levels, according to a two-year study presented today at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 19th Annual Meeting (Poster #283).

Researchers discover the role of endothelin in vaso-occlusive pain

Agonizing physical pain, known as vaso-occlusive pain, can afflict children who have sickle cell disease (SCD). In some cases infants as young as two months of age suffer vaso-occlusive pain so severe that opiate medications and hospitalizations are their only relief. Researchers believe vaso-occlusion is caused by a blockage of the blood vessels that occurs when sickle shaped red cells attempt to pass through the round blood vessels.

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