Nursing Homes in Oberlin, LA
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 St Frances Nsg & Rehab Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 417 Industrial Drive, Oberlin, Louisiana 70655 Ratings: Phone: (337) 639-2934 |
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FDA won't ban bisphenol A from food packaging
In a long drawn decision the U.S. government announced Friday that it will not ban bisphenol A, an industrial chemical believed to disrupt the reproductive and nervous systems, from food and drink packaging.
Patients who have a blood clot are at high risk of having another one, and men have more than twice the risk as women
While estimates of the overall risk of a thrombotic (blood clot) event recurrence vary, reports on contributing factors are contradictory, according to background information in the article. Knowledge of the risk of a thrombotic event recurrence and its determinants is relevant for clinical policy regarding screening for thrombophilia (increased risk for blood clot), duration of anticoagulant treatment, and treatment strategies in circumstances of increased risk.
AHF's Magic Johnson Testing America Tour arrives in Minneapolis to offer free HIV testing
AHF's Magic Johnson 'Testing America' Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Minneapolis today and will offer free HIV testing, along with local partner, Siouxland Community Health Center, today in the historic 4th Street area on the south side of Mac Behr's from 7:00 PM to 12:00 Midnight.
NYT: Ethics probe involves kidney transplant center, Rep. Berkley
In 2008 Ms. Berkley helped lead an effort to block a move by federal regulators to close Nevada's only kidney transplant center, which her husband's medical practice helps run under a $738,000-a-year contract. She also successfully pushed regulators, as recently as March, to reverse a plan to cut Medicare reimbursement to dialysis centers, including the dozen her husband's medical practice owns.
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