Hospitals in Colfax, WA - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Whitman Hospital And Medical Center
Critical Access Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 1200 West Fairview, Colfax, Washington 99111
Ratings: Phone: (509) 397-3435

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Physical activity can reduce risk of death among older adults

For older adults, being physically active is an important part of overall good health. In fact, experts say that nine percent of all premature deaths are caused by not getting enough physical activity. Physical activity is known to reduce deaths from heart disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease, and mental illness.

Echo total revenues increase to $447,000 for fiscal year 2011

Echo Therapeutics, Inc., a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system and its Prelude SkinPrep System for transdermal drug delivery, today announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2011.

Income disparities persist between male and female urologists

Although the field of urology remains largely male dominated, the proportion of female physicians specializing in urology has increased from less than 0.5% in 1981 to 10% today, and 33% of students entering urology internships and residency programs are now female.

Groundbreaking work on the development of motor skills in infants is being expanded to include at-risk children

For the last three years, Galloway and his graduate students have been studying the early motor skills of infants and have found that the encouragement of movement very early in life can spur physical development.

COVID-19 poses a global threat to the entire nervous system

A new review of neurological symptoms of COVID-19 patients in current scientific literature reveals the disease poses a global threat to the entire nervous system, reports a Northwestern Medicine study published this week in Annals of Neurology.

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