Hospitals in Durant, OK - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Alliancehealth Durant
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 1800 University Boulevard, Durant, Oklahoma 74702
Ratings: Phone: (405) 924-3080

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Pioneering work by Swansea University professor becomes most cited article in Desalination journal

A paper published by Elsevier and authored by Professor Nidal Hilal and his team at Swansea University has become the most cited article in the international journal Desalination since 2012 according to SciVerse ScienceDirect, a leading full-text scientific database

Blood vessel cells are instructed to form tube-like structures

How do blood vessel cells understand that they should organise themselves in tubes and not in layers? A research group from Uppsala University shows for the first time that a special type of "instructor" molecule is needed to accomplish this. These findings, published in the scientific journal Blood, might be an important step towards using stem cells to build new organs.

A mother-to-be who eats fish during the later stages of pregnancy is less likely to have a very small baby

However the latest research from the Children of the 90s project has shown no link between fish consumption and average birthweight once other factors have been taken into account. There was also no evidence of increased frequency of premature birth in mothers not eating fish.

Opinions: Defense, diplomacy, development; PMTCT in Africa; perils of DIY aid; cholera in Haiti

In a Foreign Affairs essay, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton writes of the need to elevate diplomacy and development alongside defense a 'smart power' approach to solving global problems.

Five things we found in the FDA's hidden device database

After two decades of keeping the public in the dark about millions of medical device malfunctions and injuries, the Food and Drug Administration has published the once hidden database online, revealing 5.7 million incidents publicly for the first time.

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