Nursing Homes in Gaylord, MN

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Oak Terrace Health Care Center
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Location: 640 Third Street, Gaylord, Minnesota 55334
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   Phone: (507) 237-2911

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PROLOR Biotech receives EU GMP certification for hGH-CTP biobetter version of human growth hormone

PROLOR Biotech, Inc., a company developing next generation biobetter therapeutic proteins, today announced that it has received formal Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certification for hGH-CTP, the company's proprietary biobetter version of human growth hormone. GMP certification is required by the European Union (EU) clinical trials legislation as a precondition for conducting clinical trials in EU member countries.

Valeant to acquire rights relating to Elidel and Xerese from Meda

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, Valeant International SRL (VIB), has signed an agreement to acquire rights to both Elidel and Xerese from Meda, an international specialty pharmaceutical company for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Weight-based taribavirin reduces anemia, increases sustained virologic response

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and 50 other centers found that weight-based dosing of taribavirin reduces rates of anemia while increasing sustained virologic response (SVR) in patients with chronic hepatitis C (HCV). Full details of this study are available in the October issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).

Menopause - nature's way of dealing with reproductive competition

Why the females of some species undergo menopause while others do not has always been a conundrum despite our understanding of the biological mechanisms involved.

Research roundup: Colonscopy in the countryside; retiree health benefits; what should hip surgery cost?

Rural residents who commonly seek treatment for advanced stages of colorectal cancer have been thought to lack access to cancer screening and adjuvant therapy. ... Several theories have been postulated to explain these findings, some of which include low socioeconomic status, lower educational attainment, lack of insurance coverage, underinsurance, and travel distance to health care facilities.

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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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