Dr. Joseph L Giacchino MD
Family Practitioner
1252 Winston Plaza Melrose Park IL, 60160About
Dr. Joseph Giacchino is a family practitioner practicing in Melrose Park, IL. Dr. Giacchino specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Giacchino possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California 1973
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Repetitive excitation of bursts of action potentials in the rat hippocampus following single shock stimulation.
- Epileptiform burst activity induced by potassium in the hippocampus and its regulation by GABA-mediated inhibition.
- The kindling model of epilepsy: a critical review.
- Potassium and calcium concentrations in interstitial fluid of hippocampal formation during paroxysmal responses.
- Simulation of the thermoregulatory system of rats exposed concurrently to cold and to acceleration fields.
- Simulation of the thermoregulatory system of rats exposed concurrently to cold and to acceleration fields.
- Effect of p-chlorophenylalanine on thermoregulation in unrestrained rats.
- Total hip replacement in patients with renal transplants.
- An integrated university emergency medicine - trauma program.
- The case against the "temporary" peritoneal dialysis catheter.
- The fate of unruptured intrahepatic hematomas.
- Technical considerations in elderly renal allograft recipients.
- Systemic morphine and local opioid effects on neuronal activity in the medial prefrontal cortex.
- Opioid effects on activation of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex.
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