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

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Loyola University Medical Center
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 2160 S 1st Avenue, Maywood, Illinois 60153
Ratings: Phone: (708) 216-9000

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MSU scientists show how special genes stay open to fight against infections

A new discovery at Michigan State University has revealed how special genes stay open for business, helping diagram a mechanism that plays a key role in fighting inflammation and infections.

Statins appear to improve survival in kidney transplant recipients

For patients receiving kidney transplants, treatment with cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs may lead to longer survival, reports a study in the November 2008 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

NinePoint Medical awarded $250,000 grant from Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Program

NinePoint Medical, Inc., an emerging leader in the development of in vivo pathology devices, today announced it has been awarded a grant of approximately $250,000 from the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project (QTDP) Program. The QTDP's grants and tax credits are provided under the new section 48D of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), enacted as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

Difference in uptake of breast cancer information by different socioeconomic groups

More affluent women are better informed and less likely to suffer from anxiety after treatment for breast cancer than less privileged women, according to a study published in this week's British Journal of Cancer.

Mirna announces USPTO allows claims to therapeutic application of let-7 miRNA

Mirna Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that the USPTO has allowed claims related to the therapeutic application of let-7 in the regulation of oncogenes. The claims derive from a patent application that was submitted by Yale University and exclusively licensed to Mirna related to the pioneering work of Dr. Frank Slack, Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale University in New Haven, CT.

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