Nursing Homes in Uxbridge, MA
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 Lydia Taft House Medicare and Medicaid Location: 60 Quaker Highway, Uxbridge, Massachusetts 01569 Ratings: Phone: (508) 278-9500 |
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UN urges Security Council authorization for cross-border operations from Turkey to Syria
Millions of people are pressed up against the border in an active war zone in north-west Syria and remain in need of humanitarian aid to survive. The United Nations (UN) needs cross-border and cross-line access to reach those most in need.
NUS researcher invents novel transfection technique to deliver DNA into immune cells
Immunotherapy is a promising cancer treatment that uses genetically modified immune cells to fight cancer. It can be used as a primary treatment or in combination with other treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy to slow down or stop the growth of cancer cells and prevent them from spreading to other parts of the body.
New endoscopic scanning technique improves early detection of dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus
Cancer of the lower esophagus develops almost exclusively in patients with Barrett's esophagus, an otherwise benign complication of esophageal reflux that affects approximately 3 million Americans. Although the prognosis of patients diagnosed with esophageal cancer is poor, the chances of successful treatment increase significantly if the disease is detected at an early dysplastic stage.
Researchers develop rapid test for Zika virus diagnosis
Washington University in St. Louis researchers have developed a test that quickly detects the presence of Zika virus in blood.
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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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