Hospitals in Blythe, CA - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Palo Verde Hospital
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 250 North First Street, Blythe, California 92225
Ratings: Phone: (760) 922-4115

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Severe eye problems at cattle show

After nearly fifty people complained of serious eye irritations, the dairy cow pavilion at the Royal Adelaide Show has been closed down. Organizers are blaming stagnant urine for the irritations. St John Ambulance volunteers were called to the Dairy Cattle pavilion after some people reported irritation to their eyes. 30 people required treatment at the site. 20 more people reported to the emergency department of the Royal Adelaide Hospital where their eyes were washed.

Extremely sensitive future screening technology

After the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airlines with liquid explosives was uncovered in London in August 2006, there has been pressure on the airline industry, and Homeland Security, to find new ways to not only detect liquids in baggage and on airline passengers, but also to figure out what they are.

VBL team receives $100,000 award to track abdominal aortic aneurysms

The Vascular Bioengineering Lab at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering seeks to understand and develop solutions to the causes and effects of disease in tubular tissue and organs.

FDA approves expanded indication for Boston Scientific's CRT-Ds

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced that the Circulatory System Devices Panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unanimously recommended approval of an expanded indication for its cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), including the COGNIS® CRT-D. The panel recommended the expansion include the majority of the studied population of the landmark MADIT-CRT clinical trial, which evaluated the ability of these devices to slow the progression of heart failure in patients with asymptomatic or mild heart failure.

Health experts release recommendations for fighting breast cancer in low-, middle-income countries

"Worldwide breast cancer incidence and mortality are expected to increase by 50 percent from 2002 and 2020 - and those rates will be highest in developing nations," according to a review article published Friday in Lancet Oncology that describes several challenges low- and middle-income countries face in diagnosing and treating such conditions, the Huffington Post reports.

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