Nursing Homes in South Dennis, MA
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 South Dennis Healthcare Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1 Love Lane, South Dennis, Massachusetts 02660 Ratings: Phone: (508) 385-6034 |
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Some Black women with advanced breast cancer opt against treatment, study finds
A new study has found that some black women with advanced breast cancer declined treatment with chemotherapy or radiation, though researchers did not know the reason why so many of the women opted against treatment, HealthDay/Las Vegas NOW reports.
Duke researchers map evolution of sex chromosomes in fungus linked to human disease
Biologically speaking, nearly every species on Earth has two opposite sexes, male and female. But with some fungi and other microbes, sex can be a lot more complicated.
New cholesterol-lowering drugs have potential to prevent heart attack, stroke
On the brink of FDA approval is a new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that have the potential to change the landscape in the prevention of heart attack and stroke.
New treatment protects mice from MERS infection
In a new study, University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers have had promising results with a new treatment for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The study, published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, found a new treatment that protected mice from MERS infection.
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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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