Nursing Homes in Rifle, CO
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 Grand River Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 701 E 5th St, Rifle, Colorado 81650 Ratings: Phone: (970) 625-1514 |
Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home - Rifle Medicare and Medicaid Location: 851 E 5th St, Rifle, Colorado 81650 Ratings: Phone: (970) 625-0842 |
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Viamet announces positive interim results from VT-1161 Phase 2 study in patients with AVVC
Viamet Pharmaceuticals Inc. today reported positive interim results from an ongoing Phase 2 study of VT-1161, the Company's novel oral antifungal compound, in patients with moderate to severe acute vulvovaginal candidiasis (AVVC). This study is intended as a precursor to a Phase 2b study in patients with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC).
FDA approves 53 new cancer indications between July 2005 and end of 2007
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Oncology Drug Products approved more than 50 new indications for the use of oncology and hematology drugs and biologics between July 2005, when the office began reviewing marketing applications, and the end of 2007, according to a new agency study.
Early exposure to social deprivation and neglect linked to prematurely shortened telomeres in children
Studies in institutionalized Romanian children have found that the length of time spent in conditions of social deprivation and neglect correlates with lower IQ and behavioral problems. A new study, led by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Tulane University, shows that early adversity even affects children's chromosomes – prematurely shortening the chromosome tips, known as telomeres, and hastening how quickly their cells "age."
National organizations, medical institutions join Lung Cancer Alliance to address nation's most lethal cancer
Today, Lung Cancer Alliance announced new additions to the growing list of supporters joining LCA in its "call to action" to devise a better public health strategy to address the nation's most lethal cancer.
Less-toxic drug combined with fasting may kill cancer cells
Fasting in combination with chemotherapy has already been shown to kill cancer cells, but a pair of new studies in mice suggests that a less-toxic class of drugs combined with fasting may kill breast, colorectal and lung cancer cells equally well.
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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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