These Are the Top Pediatric Care Providers in Westchester

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adult primary care essex :: Article Creator UVM Medical Center Eyes $8.6 Million Primary Care Project UVM Medical Center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger [U]niversity of Vermont Medical Center is planning an $8.6 million expansion of its primary care services in Chittenden County, new state documents show. Amid a statewide shortage of adult primary care services, hospital administrators have proposed a new facility in Essex that could handle up to 10,500 additional patient visits annually. It would be twice the size of the hospital's current Essex practice and would add seven new staff. The practice also would include an in-house psychiatrist and a drug and alcohol counselor as part of a statewide and nationwide effort to integrate such services with medical care. "It's kind of one-stop shopping," said Dr. Jennifer Gilwee, division chief of general internal medicine and geriatrics. "It just makes it easier to access...

Forcing parents to vaccinate their children isn't the way to solve this growing health crisis - Telegraph.co.uk

Should we be taking radical steps to make the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine mandatory? This has been advocated by senior members of the medical community and now the Health Secretary has said he's considering it. “I think there’s a very strong argument for movement to compulsory vaccination,” Matt Hancock has said, “and I think the public would back us.” 

It’s certainly tempting. Measles can be deadly for children – as well as causing pneumonia, deafness, epilepsy and brain damage. What’s more, it is preventable. The MMR vaccine was so successful that, based on data from 2014-2018, the UK was declared measles-free. No longer. A spike in measles cases caused the World Health Organisation...



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