Nursing Homes in Bonners Ferry, ID
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 Boundary County Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 6640 Kaniksu Street, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805 Ratings: Phone: (208) 267-3141 |
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Researchers pinpoint new approach that can treat pediatric leukemia
A Loyola University Health System study points to a promising new approach to treating an aggressive and usually fatal leukemia in babies.
Approval received for establishment of UC San Diego's new School of Public Health
The University of California Board of Regents Academic and Student Affairs Committee has approved the establishment of a School of Public Health at UC San Diego. The unanimous vote took place at the Sept. 18, 2019 meeting. The full Board of Regents approved the school on Sept. 19.
US agencies work together to prevent disease spreading through air travel
In an attempt to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or other deadly agents aboard commercial aircraft, U.S. government health agencies, airlines and aviation regulators plan to work together, federal officials said this week.
Genetically caused deafness may be reversible by compensating for a missing protein
Emory University researchers have found that in mice, increasing the amount of the protein connexin26 in the ear's cochlea compensates for an absence of another protein, connexin30.
Antipsychotics could have a protective impact against SARS-CoV-2
Two studies led by the Mental Health Unit of the Virgen del Rocio University Hospital and involving researchers from the US conclude that antipsychotic drugs could have a protective effect against SARS-CoV-2. For this reason, patients treated with these drugs have a lower risk of becoming infected or suffer a milder form of the disease if they do become infected.
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