Hospitals in Oro Valley, AZ - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Oro Valley Hospital
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 1551 East Tangerine Road, Oro Valley, Arizona 85755
Ratings: Phone: (520) 901-3549

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CryoLife's BioGlue Surgical Adhesive launched in Japan

CryoLife, Inc., an implantable biological medical device and cardiovascular tissue processing company, today announced that its BioGlue Surgical Adhesive has launched in Japan and is expected to be available in hospitals by late May 2011.

Membrane-proximal external region of HIV could be used to design vaccines

Beatriz Apellaniz, PhD holder of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, has studied in her PhD thesis HIV regions that could be used to design a vaccine. The researcher has focussed her research on a specific region of the surface protein of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which is responsible for the Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), one of the diseases with the greatest human morbidity and mortality.

Key differences in immune response may explain young children's proneness to infecion

Schools are commonly known as breeding grounds for viruses and bacteria, but this may not necessarily be linked to hygiene.

Statins benefit ‘at risk' patients but are underused: Study

A look at some of the large clinical trials and studies has shown that thousands of deaths could be prevented a year if people at risk of heart attack or stroke are prescribed high doses of statins. The review involves data from 170,000 patients in 26 randomized trials. The paper is published in the journal The Lancet.

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