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Study: Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier (AP)
AP - Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.
HIV tests not yet as routine as cholesterol checks (AP)
AP - Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday.
Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital (AP)

Fourteen-year-old D'Zhana Simmons (L) of South Carolina, who survived without a heart for nearly four months, walks with her mother, Twolla Anderson (R) as they enter a news conference at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami November 19, 2008. Simmons was kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood pumping device until she was able to have a heart transplant. (Joe Skipper/Reuters)AP - D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."


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The Thomas Chittenden Health Center is a general family practice dedicated to serving the primary care needs of patients in the greater Williston area.

Doctors John Lantman, David Park, William Ryan, and Paul Stanilonis founded TCHC in 1969. Since then TCHC has stayed true to the founders' original guiding principles.

TCHC has grown over the years to include 10 physicians and several physicians' assistants / nurse practitioners. Every physician at the practice has gained admitting privileges at Fletcher Allen Health Care and many are active on hospital committees. In addition to strong community ties, TCHC practitioners are committed to teaching students at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. As part of the learning experience, medical students are often in the doctors' offices to learn first-hand how to meet the comprehensive needs of patients.


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