Nursing Homes in Burkesville, KY
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 Cumberland Valley Manor Medicare and Medicaid Location: 301 South Main Street, Burkesville, Kentucky 42717 Ratings: Phone: (270) 864-4315 |
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Radiation exposure explained
Amidst threat of major nuclear accident in Japan, people are in a state of panic worldwide said Jerrold Bushberg, a medical physicist at UC Davis. Bushberg said Americans do not have a good knowledge of the science of radiation and tend to over-exaggerate the risks.
Risk factors defined for retinal detachment after cataract surgery
Study results spanning 22 years show that the risk for retinal detachment after undergoing phacoemulsification for cataracts has fallen dramatically, but that younger, and male patients are more at risk for this adverse outcome than their older, female peers.
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals launches the Tan EndoGlide Endothelium Insertion System in the U.S.
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced the commercial launch of the Tan EndoGlide(TM) Endothelium Insertion System in the United States. Angiotech holds exclusive U.S. distribution rights to market and distribute the Tan EndoGlide Endothelium Insertion System, which it obtained in a supply agreement with privately held Network Medical Products, Ltd. Angiotech will launch the product during the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, to be held in San Francisco, CA on October 24-27, 2009.
UNDT's 5-agent bioterrorism detection kits used by first responders
Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies and counter-terrorism training programs to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats, issued a response today to a growing interest in the security and emergency response communities to immunize first responders most susceptible to anthrax exposure.
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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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