Nursing Homes in Waimea, HI
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 Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital Medicare and Medicaid Location: 4643 Waimea Canyon Drive, Waimea, Hawaii 96796 Ratings: Phone: (808) 338-9431 |
Kauai Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 9611 Waena Road, Waimea, Hawaii 96796 Ratings: Phone: (808) 338-1681 |
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Discovery of new molecular pathway for targeting cancer
A UCLA study has identified a way to turn off a key signaling pathway involved in physiological processes that can also stimulate the development of cancer and other diseases. The findings may lead to new treatments and targeted drugs using this approach.
Yorkshire Cancer Research to invest £5 million to find root causes of cancer problems
YORKSHIRE Cancer Research will invest £5 million in research that will have a direct impact on cancer patients in Yorkshire, it has been announced today.
Study shows prevalence, severity of dyspnea in long-term lung cancer survivors
With the growing number of long-term lung cancer survivors, research is needed to identify and address cancer survivorship issues. One of the most common and debilitating symptoms among lung cancer patients is dyspnea, or shortness of breath. As most studies of dyspnea have reviewed patients with active lung cancer or immediately after treatment, the prevalence of dyspnea over the long-term once treatment has been completed is not well characterized.
Strategy for harnessing physics for health
Following a workshop hosted by the CERN European particle physics laboratory in February, doctors and physicists today published a strategy for harnessing physics for health. Techniques developed for physics research have a long history of application in medicine. Today's news recognises that synergy, and sets out a programme of strengthened collaboration.
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Nursing Home
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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