Hospitals in Fairfield, IL - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Fairfield Memorial Hospital 1
Critical Access Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 303 N W 11th Street, Fairfield, Illinois 62837
Ratings: Phone: (618) 842-2611

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Sense of community is more important for pregnant woman's mental health than ethnicity: Study

It takes a village to keep a pregnant woman at her healthiest, a new University of Michigan study shows. The study compared African American and European American women and women of lower and higher socioeconomic status to see what effects communalism, or a strong sense of community, had on African American women and women of lower socioeconomic status.

Images of brain activity may hold clues to the onset of schizophrenia

Images of brain activity may hold clues to the onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk for the disease, according to a study headed by psychiatry researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Lincoln, Kucinich weigh in on health bill votes

The Associated Press/The Washington Times: Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., "insisted Tuesday she remained opposed to pushing a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote, despite saying she wanted to see what was in the legislation." Lincoln "said those comments didn't represent a change of heart on her stance against the controversial majority-vote procedure known as 'reconciliation.' 'I don't support reconciliation. All I said was I want to see what's in it,' Lincoln told reporters outside the Senate floor. She walked quickly into a senators-only area without elaborating" (Werner, 3/9).

Newly identified height genes may lead to treatments for arthritis and cancer

New research which has identified 20 sections of genetic code linked to height may also lead to new treatments for arthritis and cancer.

ARIUS Research granted two new U.S. patents for antibodies

ARIUS Research has announced that it has been granted two new United States patents for antibodies within their CD63 program. Patent 7,175,846. covers anti-cancer antibodies in ARIUS' partnered program for melanoma, breast and prostate cancers and protects the valuable site on the disease target that the drug candidate binds to.

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