Hospitals in Paducah, KY - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Lourdes Hospital
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 1530 Lone Oak Road, Paducah, Kentucky 42003
Ratings: Phone: (270) 444-2444

Baptist Health Paducah
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 2501 Kentucky Avenue, Paducah, Kentucky 42003
Ratings: Phone: (270) 575-2100

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New antifungal drugs could be developed based on substance bacteria use to decompose mushrooms

Soft rot diseases cause a great deal of damage in agriculture, and turn fruits, vegetables, and mushrooms to mush. By using imaging mass spectrometry together with genetic and bioinformatic techniques (genome mining), German researchers have now discovered the substance the bacteria use to decompose mushrooms.

EI-IC bypass surgery does not lower risk of stroke recurrence in patients with TIA

A surgical procedure aimed at bypassing a blocked artery that supplies blood to the brain did not lower the subsequent stroke rate after 2 years in people who previously had a minor stroke, compared to those who did not have the surgery.

Trans-Atlantic air traveler in quarantine with dangerous TB

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States have placed a trans-Atlantic air traveler under quarantine because he has a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis.

Cutting foreign assistance funding might mean death for world's poor

In this opinion piece in The Hill's "Congress Blog," Rep. Barbara Lee D-Calif. writes that cutting "funding of vital programs that focus on global food security, health, climate adaptation, and disaster relief, which make up less than one percent of the U.S. federal budget, will not get us far in terms of plugging the budget gap but they could literally make the difference between life and death for many of the world's poor."

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