Nursing Homes in Mount Pleasant, IA
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 Henry County Health Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 401 South Van Buren, Mount Pleasant, Iowa 52641 Ratings: Phone: (319) 385-6192 |
Arbor Court Medicare and Medicaid Location: 701 East Mapleleaf Drive, Mount Pleasant, Iowa 52641 Ratings: Phone: (319) 385-1400 |
Savannah Heights Medicare and Medicaid Location: 601 S Prairie Street, Mount Pleasant, Iowa 52641 Ratings: Phone: (319) 385-8095 |
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Injections of anaerobic bacteria can shrink tumors in rats, dogs and human
Deep within most tumors lie areas that remain untouched by chemotherapy and radiation. These troublesome spots lack the blood and oxygen needed for traditional therapies to work, but provide the perfect target for a new cancer treatment using bacteria that thrive in oxygen-poor conditions.
Scientists target protein-detection approach to systematically measure human repertoire of proteins
An international team of scientists led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center cancer proteomics expert Amanda Paulovich, M.D., has demonstrated the feasibility of large-scale, standardized protein measurements, which are necessary for validation of disease biomarkers and drug targets.
Colorado cancer researchers launch feasibility study to build nation's first carbon-ion radiotherapy facility
Colorado cancer researchers and medical doctors on Wednesday announced they are launching a $200,000 feasibility study as a key step to building the nation's first carbon-ion radiotherapy research and treatment facility in Aurora, where they and colleagues hope to investigate and provide to patients leading-edge radiation therapy that is effective against the deadliest cancers and now is available only in Europe and Japan.
Enzyme Acetylcholinesterase (AChE), New Approach to Drug Design
French and American researchers have developed a unique approach to drug design where an important neuron-signaling enzyme called acetylcholinesterase (AChE) acts as a microscopic vessel filled with reactant chemicals, to create its own, tailored therapeutic agent.
Researchers develop method for diagnosis and prognosis of cutaneous melanoma
UPV/EHU researchers have developed a method for the diagnosis and prognosis of cutaneous melanoma, the type of skin cancer with the highest mortality rate.This method will help not only in the more effective early detection of this cancer, but also in the development of more personalised treatments.
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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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