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

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Thedacare Medical Center - Shawano
Critical Access Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 100 County Rd B, Shawano, Wisconsin 54166
Ratings: Phone: (715) 526-2111

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President Obama's health care address to Congress broadcasted

Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a radio actuality previewing President Obama's health care address to Congress on Wednesday evening. Radio stations and Web sites wishing to download the audio for broadcast can find it on the www.healthreform.gov Web site.

Surgical oncologist receives grant further explore tumor suppressor function of mutated gene

Darren Carpizo, MD, PhD, a surgical oncologist in the Liver Cancer and Bile Duct Cancer Care Program at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research to further explore the effects of a compound identified in his laboratory found to restore tumor suppressor function of a mutated gene in cancer cells.

Shire files lawsuit against Watson over ADDERALL XR patent infringement

Shire plc, announces that its subsidiary Shire LLC has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its subsidiaries Watson Laboratories, Inc.-Florida, Watson Pharma, Inc., Andrx Corporation, and Andrx Pharmaceuticals, L.L.C. for infringement of Shire's U.S. Reissue Patent No. RE 41,148, U.S. Reissue Patent No. RE 42,096 and U.S. Patent No. 6,913,768 and also for breach of contract.

International Nurses Day chance to improve conditions for health workers in developing countries, opinion piece says

International Nurses Day, which took place on Tuesday, was "an appropriate day ... to consider the challenges faced by health care personnel in developing countries," including those related to HIV/AIDS, Gary Cohen, board director of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the CDC Foundation, writes in a NorthJersey.com opinion piece.

Lymph node status after preoperative therapy determines survival of esophageal cancer patients

According to a new study, the status of lymph nodes rather than the status of the primary tumor following preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy or chemoradiation therapy is the most important factor that determines whether patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer will survive.

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