Nursing Homes in Old Saybrook, CT
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 Apple Rehab Saybrook Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1775 Boston Post Rd, Old Saybrook, Connecticut 06475 Ratings: Phone: (860) 399-6216 |
Gladeview Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 60 Boston Post Rd, Old Saybrook, Connecticut 06475 Ratings: Phone: (860) 388-6696 |
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Exercise helps teens quit smoking
Research has shown that a program that combines counseling with physical activity may offer teens a more effective way to stop smoking. Less than 5 percent of those who were assigned to a brief smoking cessation intervention had quit smoking after three months. But, in the group of teens that received smoking cessation counseling coupled with physical activity, almost 14 percent were off cigarettes at the three-month mark. And, the findings were most dramatic for boys. Nearly a quarter of the boys in the combination group had quit smoking at the end of three months.
Reuters reports on PLoS medicine series on water, sanitation
Nearly 20 percent of the world's population still defecates in the open, and action to improve hygiene, sanitation and water supply could prevent more than 2 million child deaths a year, health experts said" on Monday, following the release of a series of papers on water and sanitation published in the journal PLoS Medicine, Reuters reports.
Access Pharmaceuticals enters into exclusive license agreement with Norgine
ACCESS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., an emerging biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it had entered into an exclusive license agreement with Norgine B.V., a leading independent European specialty pharmaceutical company, for the commercialization of MuGard in Europe.
Bitplane launches Imaris 8.4 solution that traces filaments in dense 3D neural networks
Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments Company and world leader in 2-4D image visualization, analysis and interpretation, have announced the launch of Imaris 8.4 in advance of the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego.
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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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