Nursing Homes in Dedham, MA
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 Dedham Healthcare Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1007 East Street, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026 Ratings: Phone: (781) 329-1520 |
Newbridge On The Charles Skilled Nursing Facility Medicare Location: 7000 Great Meadow Road, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026 Ratings: Phone: (781) 234-9660 |
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Long-awaited structure offers new insights into rejection of transplanted organs
Rejection of any kind is always hard to deal with, but when one's body rejects a precious organ transplant, the consequences can be devastating. Professor A. Vathsala, Co-director of the National University Centre for Organ Transplantation at the National University Hospital and Professor of Medicine, shared that between 30% to 40% of kidney transplants are lost over time to rejection.
UPR pathway helps tumor cells escape apoptosis during development of lymphoma
A pathway called the "Unfolded Protein Response," or UPR, a cell's way of responding to unfolded and misfolded proteins, helps tumor cells escape programmed cell death during the development of lymphoma.
‘Real-world' sunitinib findings support trial results
Results of postmarketing follow-up in Japanese patients confirm the efficacy and safety profile of sunitinib in advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Work of WHO essential medicines department at risk due to funding shortage, Oxfam warns
"The work of the essential medicines department of the World Health Organization (WHO) is under threat because of a serious shortage of funds, says a worrying and important letter published in the Lancet [on Thursday]," Guardian Health Editor Sarah Boseley reports in her "Global Health Blog."
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Nursing Home
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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