Nursing Homes in Kaplan, LA
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 Kaplan Healthcare Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1300 W. Eighth Street, Kaplan, Louisiana 70548 Ratings: Phone: (337) 643-7302 |
Vermilion Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 14008 Cheneau Road, Kaplan, Louisiana 70548 Ratings: Phone: (337) 643-1949 |
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Five surgeons receive ACS/Pfizer Surgical Humanitarian Awards
Last night, five surgeons received the 2019 American College of Surgeons (ACS)/Pfizer Surgical Humanitarian Awards and Surgical Volunteerism Awards in recognition of their selfless efforts as volunteer surgeons who provide care to medically underserved patients.
Mutations in a protein called dynein may cause inherited neuropathy
Mutations in a protein called dynein, required for the proper functioning of sensory nerve cells, can cause defects in mice that may provide crucial clues leading to better treatments for a human nerve disorder known as peripheral neuropathy, which affects about three percent of all those over age 60.
Cryopraxis/CellPraxis initiates recruitment in ReACT Phase III trial for refractory angina
Cryopraxis/CellPraxis aims to start patient recruitment for its Phase III Refractory Angina Cell Therapy Brazilian arm clinical trial by the end of 2012 or early 2013.
Clinical trial helps improve prognosis and changes the standard of care for patients with colorectal cancer
In a review article published this month in The Oncologist, UNC's Dr. Richard M. Goldberg and a team of colleagues catalogue how the data collected in a single large comparative clinical trial testing combination chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer has been used not only to benefit the patients that enrolled but also patients who subsequently developed the disease.
Family businesses may miss out on insurance tax credits; Doctors' angry with Congress
The Boston Globe explores a largely overlooked provision in the tax credits offered to small businesses by the new health law to help cover the costs of insuring workers. "[M]any Massachusetts small business owners who employ mostly family members are discovering fine print in the new law that disqualifies, or substantially limits, their tax credit. That language says family-owned businesses are not allowed to count employees who are also family members toward the credit, which is retroactive to January.
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