Mr. Eric Chifunda OTR
Occupational Therapist
116 W 23RD ST STE 5-552 NEW YORK NY, 10011About
Dr. Eric Chifunda practices Occupational Medicine in NEW YORK, NY. Dr. Chifunda evaluates the interaction between work and health. Occupational medicine physicians have general knowledge of worksite operations and are familiar with the toxic properties of materials used by employees and the potential hazards and stressors of work processes; in addition to being qualified to determine an employees physical and emotional fitness for work; diagnosing and treating occupational diseases; handling work related injuries; and having an understanding of rehabilitation methods, health education techniques, sanitation, and workers compensation laws.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Focal lesions of muscle in peripheral vascular disease: their comparison with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
- The use of hyperventilation in contrast-enhanced MR imaging of brain tumors.
- Cranial nerve compression from breast cancer metastasis.
- Hyperammonia possibly due to corticosteroids.
- Preventing complications of electromyography.
- Clonal lines of transgenic fibroblast cells derived from the same fetus result in different development when used for nuclear transfer in pigs.
- Post-infectious central and peripheral nervous system diseases in patient with Devic's disease and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
- NGF induces the expression of the VGF gene through a cAMP response element.
- Multiple proteins are produced from the dec-1 eggshell gene in Drosophila by alternative RNA splicing and proteolytic cleavage events.
- Ventricular late potentials in myotonic dystrophy.
- Progressive motor neuron disease associated with electrical injury.
- TRH-induced reflex changes in patients with ALS.
- Transgenic expression of human CD47 markedly increases engraftment in a murine model of pig-to-human hematopoietic cell transplantation.
- "Conjugal" transfer of plasmid DNA among oral streptococci.
- "Conjugal" transfer of plasmid DNA among oral streptococci.
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