EPSDT – How to Secure Funding for Child Mental Health Treatment

EPSDT – how to secure funding for child mental health treatment – A quick overview of the EPSDT benefit, available in all 50 states as a Civil Right for children with disabilities who are enrolled in Medicaid (in 36 states,…

Hormone therapy for endometrial cancer targets connective tissue, not tumor cells

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While doctors know that a certain subsets of patients will benefit from progesterone treatment, prescribing the therapy is like shooting in the dark because it's unclear in advance which women will respond and which may have resistant tumors, according …
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Novus to State Lawmakers: Monitoring Databases Hinder Rx Drug Abuse …

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Despite prescription drug abuse and overdoses reaching epidemic proportions, many states remain tepid to the idea of prescription drug monitoring databases as a means of rectifying the problem. California is considering cutting off funding, while the …
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Community Extra Calendar

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Fill the Boot: Mukilteo Firefighters Local 3482 will pass the boot to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. today, at the Washington State Ferry holding lanes and at QFC at 11700 Mukilteo Speedway. … Sew Thoughtful: Local …
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Protein Protects Against Breast Cancer Recurrence in Animal Model

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PHILADELPHIA — According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 40,000 women in the United States will succumb to breast cancer this year. Most of these women will die not from … They found that Par-4 expression is low in “residual disease” (that …
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