Maria Vital is the administrative director of the Leahy Clinic."This clinic is not just important for the uninsured. It’s not just for our community. It’s impo
A free medical clinic for the uninsured will soon open on the campus of the University of Scranton. The partnership for this clinic will allow students a place to ge
Patient s own immune system to act on his prostate cancer cells and prevent them from spreading. now, it is just approved by the fda. it is not universally available yet. it is only available in the 50 centers where the trials were conducted with this. i know that in boston, it is available at the leahy clinic and dana farber and i don t know where else in the country it is available. not everybody who wants it or can benefit from it can get it. they only have enough for 2,000 cases. this year. and, the other thing that is so terrible is that the expense of it will be about $93,000. a year. now, medicare has said that they are going to take a year to decide whether to pay for it, some insurance companies are paying for it. you ll have to find out.