Nursing Homes in Alexandria, KY
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 The Seasons At Alexandria Medicare and Medicaid Location: 7341 E Alexandria Pike, Alexandria, Kentucky 41001 Ratings: Phone: (859) 694-4450 |
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Study ignores possibility that drugs, chemicals affect sexes differently
Many of the medicines we take were only ever tested on men during clinical studies. This poses a distinct danger that females are receiving suboptimal care—and that treatments specifically benefiting women are going undiscovered.
Radiologists use new interventional NanoKnife technique to treat lung cancer
Interventional radiologists at BAPTIST HEALTH Medical Center - Little Rock recently became the first physicians in the U.S. to use a new image-guided interventional NanoKnife technique to treat a malignant nodule within the lung.
New York bans vaping, e-cigs from everywhere that smoking is
Governor of New York Andrew M. Cuomo has signed a legislation that prohibits electronic cigarette smoking in areas and regions where smoking tobacco products are banned. This is an addition to the Clean Indoor Air Act. This bill - S.2543A/ A.516A, is meant to prevent the exposure to the harmful chemicals from the e-cigarettes to people around these smokers.
Low levels of Vitamin D are associated with a higher risk of premature death
Recent research has shown that lower blood levels of vitamin D increase the risk of dying early.
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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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