Nursing Homes in Brighton, CO
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 Avamere Transitional Care And Rehabilitation Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2025 E Egbert St, Brighton, Colorado 80601 Ratings: Phone: (303) 659-4580 |
Riverdale Rehab And Care Community Of Brighton Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2311 E Bridge St, Brighton, Colorado 80601 Ratings: Phone: (303) 659-2253 |
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California's vaccine policy improved immunization coverage
In 2016, California removed vaccine exemptions for non-medical reasons, such as parental hesitancy, to requirements for school entry. In other words, California children needed to have a medical reason to refuse vaccination if they wanted to join kindergarten. In so doing, the state may have paved the way for a higher percentage of vaccination recipients at both county and state level, says a new study published this week in the journal PLOS Medicine.
Endocrine Society to host Congressional briefing on November 4 to combat diabetes epidemic
The Endocrine Society is hosting a Congressional briefing on November 4 to examine policies to help the 29 million Americans who have diabetes and the 86 million who are likely to develop the disease.
Testosterone treatment for older men improves sexual function, walking ability and mood
As men age, their testosterone levels decrease, but prior studies of the effects of administering testosterone to older men have been inconclusive. Now, research shows that testosterone treatment for men over 65 improves sexual function, walking ability and mood, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by team researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and twelve other medical centers in the United States, in partnership with the National Institute on Aging.
GT Life Sciences and BGI complete CHO-K1 genome sequencing
GT Life Sciences, a privately held biotechnology company that utilizes a proven metabolic modeling and experimental platform to drive the discovery and design of new products and processes for the life sciences field, and BGI, the largest genomics organization in the world, announced that they have successfully completed for the first time the sequencing of the Chinese hamster ovary genome.
FDA grants acceptance to application for selumetinib as treatment for neurofibromatosis
AstraZeneca and MSD (Merck) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted acceptance to file status of its application for the MEK inhibitor selumetinib, for use in patients with plexiform neurofibromas, a common manifestation in the disease neurofibromatosis type one (NF1).
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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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