Nursing Homes in Hueytown, AL
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 Self Health Care & Rehab Center Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 131 East Crest Road, Hueytown, Alabama 35023 Ratings: Phone: (205) 491-2411 |
Baron House Of Hueytown Medicare and Medicaid Location: 190 Brooklane Drive, Hueytown, Alabama 35023 Ratings: Phone: (205) 491-2905 |
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Inovio awarded U.S. DOD grant to advance non-invasive surface electroporation delivery device
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Regulus Therapeutics obtains rights to intellectual property covering methods for modulating microRNA-21
Regulus Therapeutics Inc. announced today that it has obtained exclusive rights from the University of Wuerzburg to intellectual property covering methods for modulating microRNA-21. Regulus scientists and collaborators have shown that microRNA-21, (miR-21), is dysregulated in mouse models of cardiac disease and fibrosis, and that antagonizing miR-21 with therapeutic oligonucleotides targeting miR-21 inhibits fibrosis and attenuates cardiac function in such models. Regulus is currently developing a microRNA therapeutic targeting miR-21 as an anti-fibrotic therapy.
Study shows AVATS procedure as safe, effective alternative for patients deemed 'inoperable'
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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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