Hospitals in Homer, AK - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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South Peninsula Hospital
Critical Access Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 4300 Bartlett St, Homer, Alaska 99603
Ratings: Phone: (907) 235-8101

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Survey: 94% of UK surgeons have encountered a needlestick injury

94% of practicing UK surgeons have either been personally affected by a needlestick injury or have seen a colleague experience one, increasing their risk of infection, a new survey has found. Just 2% of surgeons said that they had never experienced a needlestick injury in the operating theater.

Pre-menopausal women with advanced breast cancer unnecessarily excluded from clinical trials

Pre-menopausal women with the most common type of advanced breast cancer are usually excluded from medical research unnecessarily, according to an expert panel at the Advanced Breast Cancer Fourth International Consensus Conference.

New reports demonstrate the effectiveness of modified T cells in treating blood-borne cancers

At the 2013 American Society of Hematology meeting in Dec. 2013, James Kochenderfer, M.D., investigator in the Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, NCI, presented findings from two clinical trials evaluating the use of genetically modified immune system T cells as cancer therapy.

Tengion completes FDA Pre-IND meeting for Neo-Kidney Augment preclinical program

Tengion, Inc., a leader in regenerative medicine, today announced that it recently completed a successful Pre-IND meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its lead preclinical program, the Neo-Kidney Augment.

Decision Resources: Benlysta to garner more than $500M in 2018

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, following its expected regulatory approval in 2011 in the United States and Europe, Human Genome Sciences/GlaxoSmithKline's Benlysta will garner sales of more than $500 million in 2018 in the systemic lupus erythematosus drug market.

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