Nursing Homes in Columbia Heights, MN
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 Crest View Lutheran Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 4444 Reservoir Boulevard Northeast, Columbia Heights, Minnesota 55421 Ratings: Phone: (763) 782-1611 |
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Reorganizing the FDA could save Americans trillions of dollars over the next decade, says legal expert
While Congress and the rest of the nation turn the battle over healthcare reform into a pro-wrestling-style steel cage death match with enough rhetoric to choke an English professor, at least one expert is looking beyond the bills on the table for a different solution.
UC Irvine study shows youthful vigor can be restored to adult brains
They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The same can be said of the adult brain. Its connections are hard to change, while in children, novel experiences rapidly mold new connections during critical periods of brain development.
46 million Americans uninsured
The uproar at this summer's raucous town hall meetings, Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst in Congress and the endless debate over whether some opposition to healthcare reform is racially-tinged are a major disservice to the millions of Americans who need healthcare reform. Rep. Wilson doesn't worry about costs if a member of his family falls ill; he is covered. The majority of the people screaming and waving signs at town hall meetings don't worry either. They are covered. Their family members walk into a doctor's office or hospital emergency room, flash insurance cards and receive the best treatment available.
Teens abuse prescription drugs more than illegal drugs
According to the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, teens abuse prescription medications more than all illegal drugs combined, excluding marijuana. Many teens are under the misconception that these highly addictive, easily accessible drugs are "safer" than illicit drugs.
Researchers use novel phage therapy to treat patient infected with multidrug-resistant bacterium
Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center - Biological Defense Research Directorate, Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages - viruses that target and consume specific strains of bacteria - to treat a patient near death from a multidrug-resistant bacterium.
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