Nursing Homes in Anniston, AL
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 Nhc Healthcare, Anniston Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2300 Coleman Rd, Anniston, Alabama 36207 Ratings: Phone: (256) 831-5730 |
Anniston Health And Rehab Services Medicare and Medicaid Location: 600 E 8th Street, Anniston, Alabama 36207 Ratings: Phone: (256) 236-4949 |
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Novartis reports positive results from first pivotal ACZ885 Phase III trial in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Novartis announced today positive results of the first pivotal Phase III trial of ACZ885 in patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA), a rare and serious childhood auto-inflammatory disease. The results, presented at the 2011 European Pediatric Rheumatology Congress in Bruges, Belgium, showed all primary and secondary endpoints of the study were met.
Researchers elucidate mechanism that induces skeletal muscle atrophy in patients with congestive heart failure
It is a paradox: Patients with advanced congestive heart failure lose skeletal muscle mass, but their heart muscles become enlarged to provide the body with an adequate supply of blood and thus with oxygen. It has long been known that the protein angiotensin II plays a villainous role in this process, but the exact mechanism has remained unclear.
Study shows causal effect of obesity on medical care costs
Obesity now accounts for almost 21 percent of U.S. health care costs - more than twice the previous estimates, reports a new Cornell University study.
Journal of Clinical Oncology publishes IPI-504 Phase 2 study results
Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that results from its Phase 2 study of IPI-504, a novel IV-administered Hsp90 chaperone inhibitor, in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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A nursing home (also called skilled nursing facility) is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living.A skilled nursing facility (SNF) may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation.
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