General Primary Care
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<ѻýҕl>Generic Copaxone for MS Passes Clinical Testѻýҕl>
BOSTON -- A copycat version of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone, known generically as glatiramer acetate, performed similarly to the original product in a head-to-head trial, paving the way for it to win regulatory approval as a generic drug.
Sep 12, 2014
<ѻýҕl>Novel Drug Beats Avonex for MS Efficacy; Safety Still a Worryѻýҕl>
BOSTON -- Daclizumab HYP cut relapse rates and disability progression in multiple sclerosis patients more effectively than interferon beta-1a (Avonex) in a phase III trial, but liver toxicity with the IL-2 inhibitor reared its head again.
Sep 12, 2014
<ѻýҕl>Ebola Response: Slowed by a 'Perfect Storm' of Setbacksѻýҕl>
WASHINGTON -- The world was taken by surprise by the West Africa Ebola outbreak and has been scrambling ever since to catch up, with many setbacks and only a few bright spots in the picture, international experts said at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Sep 08, 2014
<ѻýҕl>ESC: Mixed Results with Steroids in TB Pericarditisѻýҕl>
BARCELONA -- Adding steroids to anti-tuberculosis treatment for patients with tuberculous pericarditis can reduce the risk of complication and the resulting hospital admission, but adding prednisolone to tuberculosis treatment did not reduce the risk of death, researchers said here.
Sep 03, 2014
<ѻýҕl>Urgent Care Centers Opening For Mental lllnessesѻýҕl>
Mental health urgent care centers, also known as crisis stabilization units, are opening throughout California in response to the shortage of psychiatric beds and the increase in patients with mental illnesses showing up at hospital emergency rooms with nowhere else to go.
Aug 29, 2014
<ѻýҕl>Derms Want NP/PA Practice Limitsѻýҕl>
NPs and PAs who bill Medicaid as independent practitioners are more likely to bill for a dermatology visit than for any other office-based service -- so much so that in 2012, 55% of their Medicaid billings were for derm codes, to which dermatologists claim scope of practice violations.
Aug 15, 2014