Nursing Homes in Parsons, KS
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 Good Samaritan Society - Parsons Medicare and Medicaid Location: 709 Leawood Avenue, Parsons, Kansas 67357 Ratings: Phone: (620) 421-1110 |
Parsons Presbyterian Manor Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3501 Dirr Avenue, Parsons, Kansas 67357 Ratings: Phone: (620) 421-1450 |
Elmhaven East Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1400 S 15th Street, Parsons, Kansas 67357 Ratings: Phone: (620) 421-1430 |
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Amedica's four scientific presentations to highlight benefits of silicon nitride platform at ISTA
Amedica Corporation, an innovative biomaterial company which develops and manufactures silicon nitride as a platform for biomedical applications, is pleased to announce all four submissions to the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty were accepted for presentation during the 28th annual congress occurring September 30 – October 3, 2015 in Vienna, Austria.
Pfizer initiates rolling submission of crizotinib NDA for ALK-positive advanced NSCLC
Pfizer Inc. announced today that it has initiated the rolling submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for crizotinib (PF-02341066), an oral first-in-class anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor for the treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors are ALK-positive. Pfizer expects to complete the submission in the first half of 2011.
Lack or excess of CaM kinase II affects heart muscle cell stiffness
A certain enzyme, the CaM kinase II, keeps the cardiac muscle flexible. By transferring phosphate groups to the giant protein titin, it relaxes the muscle cells. This is reported by researchers led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linke of the Institute of Physiology at the Ruhr Universität in the journal Circulation Research. In failing hearts, which don't pump enough blood around the body, the scientists found an overly active CaM kinase II.
Bryostatin extends stroke treatment time to 24 hours, repairs brain tissue
Scientists at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) have discovered that Bryostatin - and a related class of drugs discovered at BRNI - administered 24 hours after stroke can rescue and repair brain tissue. These findings are markedly advanced compared to current stroke treatments that must be administered within three hours and are unable to repair damaged brain tissue.
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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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