Hospitals in Mountain Home, AR - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Baxter Regional Medical Center
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 624 Hospital Drive, Mountain Home, Arkansas 72653
Ratings: Phone: (870) 508-1000

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Efforts to eradicate polio need international financial support

Noting that polio is endemic in only Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria, and the WHO recently declared the disease a "programmatic emergency" to "galvanize work" in those three countries, a Washington Post editorial states, "A renewed campaign [against the disease] will be costly."

New filtration process to improve safety and quality of infant formula

Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today introduced a new filtration process that significantly improves the safety and quality of infant formula. The Pall process is engineered to prevent microbial contamination through intensive filtration, while preserving nutritional quality by minimizing the need for repeated heat treatment during manufacturing.

Hospital admissions for diabetes on the rise

The number of hospital admissions for diabetes increased by almost 12 percent between 1999 and 2003, according to a new report released by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) in conjunction with American Diabetes Month.

Longer looks: The frustrations of academic medicine; Small business owners fear health law changes; A doctor struggles to save his mother

Like many franchisees, Robert U. Mayfield, who owns five Dairy Queens in and around Austin, Tex., is always eager to expand and -; no surprise -; has had his eyes on opening a sixth DQ. But he said concerns about the new federal health care law had persuaded him to hold off.

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