Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Doctors in West Hartford, CT Accepting Medicare

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Dr. Louis Brown, M.D Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Medicare: Not Enrolled in Medicare Practice Location: 164 Orchard Rd, West Hartford, CT 06117 Phone: 860-521-7744    Fax: 860-521-7763

Timothy J Lehmann, MD Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments Practice Location: 345 N Main St, 1st Floor, West Hartford, CT 06117 Phone: 860-244-2300    Fax: 860-278-1507

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Mucus plays important role in defending invaders

By licking a wound it heals faster - this is not simply popular belief, but scientifically proven. Our saliva consists of water and mucus, among other things, and the mucus plays an important role. It stimulates white blood cells to build a good defence against invaders, according to a group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden together with colleagues from Copenhagen and Odense in Denmark.

Rating of risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease: Low IQ follows cigarette smoking

While lower intelligence scores - as reflected by low results on written or oral tests of IQ - have been associated with a raised risk of cardiovascular disease, no study has so far compared the relative strength of this association with other established risk factors such as obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. Now, a large study funded by Britain's Medical Research Council, which set out to gauge the relative importance of IQ alongside other risk factors, has found that lower intelligence scores were associated with higher rates of cardiovascular disease and total mortality at a greater level of magnitude than found with any other risk factor except smoking.

New study shows that our social status influences our brain activity

Our own social status influences the way our brains respond to others of higher or lower rank, according to a new study reported online on April 28 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

Study: High cancer screening rates seen among elderly adults

Adults older than 75 years continue to have regular screenings for colorectal, breast, cervical, and prostate cancer despite guidelines that recommend against such routine screenings in this population, according to a study by Keith M. Bellizzi, MD, MPH, from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and colleagues.

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