Nursing Homes in Mount Pleasant, MI
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 Isabella Co Medical Care Facil Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1222 North Dr, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48858 Ratings: Phone: (989) 772-2957 |
Laurels Of Mt. Pleasant (the) Medicare and Medicaid Location: 400 South Crapo St, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48858 Ratings: Phone: (989) 773-5918 |
Medilodge Of Mt Pleasant Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1524 Portabella Rd, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48858 Ratings: Phone: (989) 772-2967 |
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Positive Phase 2 trial results of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals' KRX-0401 announced
Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company") today announced that an article entitled "Clinical and Translational Studies of a Phase II Trial of the Novel Oral Akt Inhibitor Perifosine in Relapsed or Relapsed/Refractory Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia," reporting Phase 2 data demonstrating the single agent activity of KRX-0401 (Perifosine) for the treatment of advanced Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia ("Waldenstrom's"), will appear in the February 1, 2010 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.
Study examines how much better hospitals and doctors would work if they ran like airlines
The National Science Foundation/U.S. News & World Report ask the question: "Airlines protect themselves from passenger 'no-shows' by overbooking. Could the same approach—overbooking patients—work in a doctor's office or hospital?" As part of a study examining such a question, the Center for Health Organization Transformation is looking at projects around the nation where "systems engineering" — the implementation of systems used in other industries — can reduce health care costs.
Cancer cells become more aggressive when exposed to tissue stiffening
In cases of breast cancer, bone metastasis - when cancer cells spread to new sites in the bone - causes the most breast cancer-related harm and is often incurable in advanced disease. A new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers found that cancer cells become more aggressive when exposed to tissue stiffening and that these changes persist over time.
Current school and university start times linked to poor learning, health problems
A study by researchers from the University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School and the University of Nevada has found that current school and university start times are damaging the learning and health of students.
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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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