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The Shops at Liberty Place at 17th and Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia have a new innovative addition to their ground floor, Drexel University's walk-in clinic. The facility is the first in the city but other city health systems are planning to build similar treatment centers in the area.

The clinic will be open 7 AM to 7 PM and is aimed to cater to the millions of people who live and work in Center City Philadelphia. Doctors and nurse practitioners will staff the clinic and will be able to diagnosis and treat routine medical conditions and if need be patients will be referred to Drexel specialists. Also at the clinic will be a state of the art drug vending machine that is able to easily provide patients with the most common generic drugs without them having to visit a pharmacy.

Doctors are hoping that the convenience of the clinic and the onsite prescription vending machine will help people to see doctors more often and catch problems early. There is also hope that the clinic and others like it will alleviate some of the traffic visiting emergency rooms after the recent concerns about treatment at local emergency rooms.

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Doctors at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City Philadelphia are very excited about a new option for brain cancer patients. The drug Avastin originally developed to treat colon cancer has found to be effective in improving the quality life of brain cancer patients. The drug works at blocking the protein that the tumor needs to grow. The Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the drug for use with brain cancer patients.

Over ten thousand people die each year due to brain tumors. Avastin has yet to be proven to lengthen the life of brain cancer patients but studies have shown that the drug can vastly improve their day to day lives. Avastin also has fewer and less severe side effects of the typical treatments for brain tumors, chemotherapy and radiation.

Doctors and researchers are very excited about the potential of Avastin and other drugs like it. "I don't think anybody thinks Avastin is going to be a home run, but in a field which didn't even have singles or doubles, Avastin is a triple," Dr. Adam Dicker of Jefferson University Hospital said.

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