Do Adult Medicaid Enrollees Prefer Going to Their Primary Care Provider's Clinic Rather Than Emergency Department (ED) for Low Acuity Conditions?
Our study shows that a little less than half of adult Medicaid enrollees presenting to the ED with low acuity conditions would have preferred to use their PCP rather than the ED, if an appointment had been immediately available.
Using post-transcriptional silencing with small interfering RNAs, we could show that MIF acts as an autocrine growth factor involved in cell cycle progression. Since MIF is a secreted protein, a therapy directed against MIF or its receptor might lead to a significant growth reduction of PDAC.