Nursing Homes in Tell City, IN
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 Golden Living Center-lincoln Hills Medicare and Medicaid Location: 402 19th Street, Tell City, Indiana 47586 Ratings: Phone: (812) 547-3427 |
Oakwood Health Campus Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1143 23rd St, Tell City, Indiana 47586 Ratings: Phone: (812) 547-2333 |
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U.S. panel may re-evaluate bird flu research after scientists present new data about risks to humans
Speaking at the American Society for Microbiology's (ASM) Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Ron Fouchier, the leader of the team at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands that genetically altered the H5N1 bird flu virus, making it transmissible among ferrets and "touching off public fears of a pandemic, said that the virus he created was neither as contagious nor as dangerous as people had been led to believe, prompting the United States government to ask that the experiments be re-evaluated by a government advisory panel that recommended in December that certain details of the work be kept secret and not published," the New York Times reports.
New method for improved visualization of single-cell RNA- sequencing data
Like going from a pinhole camera to a Polaroid, a significant mathematical update to the formula for a popular bioinformatics data visualization method will allow researchers to develop snapshots of single-cell gene expression not only several times faster but also at much higher-resolution.
Single oral dose of vitamin A reduces infant mortality
A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can reduce their risk of death by 15 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is published in the July 2008 edition of the journal Pediatrics.
Study examines rate of psychotropic medication prescribed to children in Kentucky
Researchers with the Child and Adolescent Health Research Design and Support Unit (CAHRDS Unit) at the University of Louisville have begun a study to examine one of Kentucky's most vexing children's health issues: the higher-than-average rate of psychotropic medication being prescribed to children in the Bluegrass State.
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