DC Week: Medicare Cuts Looming Large
DC Week: Medicare Cuts Looming Large
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D.C. Week: Medicare Cuts Looming Large. By David Pittman, Washington … The FDA approved the oral drug teriflunomide (Aubagio) late Wednesday for treatment of adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. In the primary phase III trial submitted …
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ADAO Announces its 2013 Conference “The Asbestos Crisis: New Trends in …
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The conference, titled “The Asbestos Crisis: New Trends in Prevention and Treatment” will be held March 22 -24, 2013 in Washington, D.C. The conference is open to the public and a discounted price is offered to patients, families, caregivers and …
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Bath Salts: The Drug That Never Lets Go
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Cathleen Clancy is associate medical director at the National Capital Poison Center in Washington D.C., where they catalog the effects of bath salts on the area's emergency room cases. Users are often hyper-agitated, hot and … In 1993, cathinone was …
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Spirit Horse Therapeutic Riding Center Information – SpiritHorse Therapeutic provides free therapeutic horseback riding services to over 450 children and adults from ten counties in the Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex each week at our facilities in Corinth, just north of Dallas, Texas. We currently serve more children than any center in the world. We are unique in that SpiritHorse is the only large center in America that provides all private therapeutic horseback riding services free of charge in our six programs: Disabilities, Children who are Victims of Abuse/Violence, At-Risk-Youth, Battered Women, and Youth After-Drug Rehab. Our mission is, “To Assist Each Child with Special Needs in Reaching Their Full Potential through Interaction with Horses”. We also have as a mission: “A kind, rewarding home for older show horses and ponies, loving care, and proper burial on our ranch when they pass on.” More than 700 centers in the United States provide recreational therapy, typically in group lessons. A much smaller number provide hippotherapy which is provided by occupational or physical therapists using the horse as a modality. A small number provide equine facilitated mental health, using the horse to foster relationship building and problem solving. SpiritHorse provides what it terms equine-assisted healthcare, which is has a different goal than that of recreational therapy. It includes, for example, eleven specific methods provided in a one-on-one setting for intervening with its 165 children who have been diagnosed with …