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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
At the September American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology Meeting in Boston, Dr. Timothy Whelan presented information regarding a shortened radiation protocol for early stage breast cancer. For select types of breast cancer, radiation treatments can be reduced in number of total treatment sessions and the recurrence outcomes remain ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
There are breast and cervical cancer screening programs available free of charge to very low income women. If you need a screening procedure and have not done so because of cost, please visit this Washington State website to see if they can be of assisted to you. http://www.doh.wa.gov/WBCHP/
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
If you have gone to the emergency room and left with questions, and maybe some confusion, you are not alone. The University of Michigan calculates that 78% of the patients receiving emerency care services do not fully understand their care, follow up instuctions, or diagnosis and cause. Of the group that ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has free health related eCards that you can send to anyone to which you would like to give a health related card by email. Here is the link http://www2a.cdc.gov/eCards/index.asp.
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
If you use biological products, which are temperature sensitve due to their protein content, you will be interested to know that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued the following notice about storing biologics during severe weather conditions and power outages. (Excerpt from the FDA's websute - dated 6/16/08; link below.)
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
On 5/27/08 the St. Louis Business Journal reported that the company, Express Scripts, agreed to pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations that they pressured doctors to change perscriptions so that their company made more money with those changes. (Express Scripts enters $9.5 million agreement in drug switching probe) With this ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Caprice’s article In the Kirkland Reporter, October 24, 2007, was designed to educate the reader about community emergency response teams and the training associated with them. This is a light-hearted information piece also intended to compel the reader to action. Click this link to read.
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