Nursing Homes in Piedmont, AL
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 Piedmont Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 30 Roundtree Drive, Piedmont, Alabama 36272 Ratings: Phone: (256) 447-8258 |
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Trevena commences TRV130 Phase I clinical trial for severe post-operative pain
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Bisphosphonates appear to reduce the risk of jaw degradation
Athanasios Zavras began receiving messages from distraught patients in 2005 after case reports linked oral osteoporosis meds to bone death in the jaw.
New editorial calls on doctors to individualize treatment decisions based on patients' fracture risk
A new editorial published by an International Osteoporosis Foundation Working Group urges physicians to individualize treatment decisions based on their patients' fracture risk, rather than automatically interrupting or stopping bisphosphonate therapy after five or three years.
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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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