Hospitals in Wellsboro, PA - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Upmc Wellsboro
Critical Access Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 32-36 Central Avenue, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania 16901
Ratings: Phone: (570) 724-1631

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Mature muscle fibers can revert to become cancerous

Mature muscle fibers, rather than their less-developed neighbors, are the tissues that turn malignant in a soft-tissue cancer that strikes children and teens, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center Dallas have found.

Caffeine may help older women protect their thinking skills

Caffeine may help older women protect their thinking skills, according to a study published in the August 7, 2007, issue of Neurology ®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Living longer AND living healthy

American Heart Association (AHA) President Robert A. Harrington says that the life expectancy has gone up in recent years. Still, he points out, improved life expectancy doesn't translate to improved health in all cases. According to him, "Not all those years are healthy ones as the effects of chronic illnesses are increasingly impacting the quality of life of people at a much younger age than in the past."

Most healthcare workers do not believe that syringe needlestick injuries have been eliminated

MedPro Safety Products, Inc., a leading developer of transformational technologies that enable safer medication delivery and blood collection, surveyed 262 healthcare professionals at the APIC 2011 Annual Educational Conference held in June 2011.

India's public, private sectors must do more to control TB

In this Lancet opinion piece, Madhukar Pai, a professor and tuberculosis (TB) researcher at McGill University and consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses TB control in India. He writes, "Much has been said and written in the media about totally drug-resistant tuberculosis… However, all of these discussions really miss the key point - that tuberculosis continues to be a huge problem in India, and that the conditions for emergence of drug resistance are undeniably prevalent, in both public and private sectors."

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