Hospitals in Barron, WI - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Mayo Clinic Health System-northland
Critical Access Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 1222 E Woodland Ave, Barron, Wisconsin 54812
Ratings: Phone: (715) 537-3186

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Majority of family violence-related injuries in youth happen at home

Researchers with Johns Hopkins Children's Center found that more than half of all violence-related injuries in youth treated in the emergency department were due to family violence, including child maltreatment and physical fighting. Most events involved parents or guardians.

Three abstracts from SuperGen PIM kinase inhibitor program to be presented at AACR

SuperGen, Inc., a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of novel cancer therapies, today announced the acceptance of three abstracts from the SuperGen PIM kinase inhibitor program. Poster presentations by SuperGen and collaborators will occur on April 3 and 5, 2011 at the American Association for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Postoperative complications more likely to occur at low-volume institutions

The frequency of post-operative complications following surgery for liver cancer is associated with a hospital having a low volume of liver surgery. Investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) are presenting that finding at the 63rd Annual Society of Surgical Oncology Symposium taking place this week in St. Louis. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Surgeons not including radiation oncologists early enough in treatment decision-making processes

Surgeons are not always including radiation oncologists early enough in a patient's treatment decision-making process, leaving some patients uninformed of all of their treatment options and potentially leading to more mastectomies over breast-conserving therapy, according to a study in the April issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Researchers trace origins of early abnormal brain overgrowth in ASD

Further underscoring the prenatal origins of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine describe for the first time how abnormal gene activity in cell cycle networks that are known to control brain cell production may underlie abnormal early brain growth in the disorder.

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