Nursing Homes in Damariscotta, ME
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 Cove's Edge Medicare and Medicaid Location: 26 Schooner Street, Damariscotta, Maine 04543 Ratings: Phone: (207) 563-4608 |
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Tunstall named HealthInvestors Telehealthcare provider of the year
Against stiff competition, Tunstall Healthcare, the world's leading provider of telehealthcare solutions has been named HealthInvestor's telehealth/telecare provider of the year at its 2011 London awards ceremony.
IMIM researchers identify new way of treating colorectal cancer
Researchers at the Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM) have identified a new way of treating colorectal cancer. In the study published in the journal Science Signaling, the team led by LLuís Espinosa, investigator of IMIM's research group into stem cells and cancer, have shown that inhibition of endosomal activity is a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancers with the BRAF mutated gene.
Current salt reduction strategy in the UK fails to reduce existing health inequalities, research shows
New research conducted by the University of Liverpool in partnership with the universities of Gdansk and Manchester shows that current salt reduction strategy in England has failed to reduce existing inequalities in salt consumption, cardiovascular disease, and gastric cancer burdens.
MiniVax wins $20,000 in NOBIC's second annual BioChallenge business competition
MiniVax, Inc. (MiniVax) participated in the New Orleans BioInnovation Center's (NOBIC) second annual BioChallenge, a business competition part of the three-day Innovation Louisiana 2013 conference.
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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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