Nursing Homes in Putnam, CT
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 Matulaitis Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 10 Thurber Rd, Putnam, Connecticut 06260 Ratings: Phone: (860) 928-7976 |
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Reports warn about link between eating red and processed meat
Recent reports warn about a link between eating red and processed meat and the risk of developing cancer in the gut. These reports have resulted in new nutritional recommendations that advise people to limit their intake of red and processed meats.
Darfur - 30,000 dead, 1.2 million displaced and 130,000 refugees
To date the conflict in Darfur has led to some 30,000 people killed, 1.2 million internally displaced and at least 130,000 living as refugees on the Chad border.
Helicos Genetic Analysis System to aid Ontario Institute for Cancer Research scientists in the study of cancer genomics
Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: HLCS), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the placement of a Helicos™ Genetic Analysis System at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) with Drs. Tom Hudson and John McPherson.
Treatment can restore satisfying sex life post menopause
A satisfying sex life is an important contributor to older adults' quality of life, but the sexual pain that can come after menopause can rob women and their partners of that satisfaction. Treatment can help restore it, shows a global survey including some 1,000 middle-aged North American men and women, published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
Glucocorticoid steroids in intelligent medicine specifically hits relevant cells
Scientists at Aarhus University, Denmark in collaboration with the biotech company Cytoguide now publish a key to use glucocorticoid steroids in a kind of intelligent medicine that specifically hits the relevant cells. Data are based on rodent studies but if this principle is translated to humans it may greatly improve todays hazardous treatment with this type of potent steroids.
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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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