Nursing Homes in Litchfield, MN
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 Meeker Manor Rehabilitation Center, Llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 600 South Davis Avenue, Litchfield, Minnesota 55355 Ratings: Phone: (320) 693-2472 |
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CSafe and AcuTemp Thermal Systems offer temperature controlled containers for the Haitian relief effort
AcuTemp Thermal Systems, www.acutemp.com, a manufacturer of active and passive containers for transporting temperature sensitive pharmaceutical and bio-medical products; and CSafe, LLC, www.csafellc.com, a provider of active container solutions for the temperature sensitive airfreight market, are offering relief agencies their temperature controlled containers for use in shipping and storing blood, vaccines and other critical temperature sensitive medical supplies for the Haitian relief effort.
Moderate-to-severe TBI can disrupt proteins that regulate enzyme associated with Alzheimer's
A study, performed in mice and utilizing post-mortem samples of brains from patients with Alzheimer's disease, found that a single event of a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can disrupt proteins that regulate an enzyme associated with Alzheimer's.
Cranberry consumption may prevent chronic infections
​Consuming cranberry products has been anecdotally associated with prevention of urinary tract infections (UTIs) for over 100 years. But is this popular belief a myth, or scientific fact?
Report: Some U.S. health care spending 'squandered'
CNN Money details a recent report from the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute that found $1.2 trillion, or more than half of the $2.2 trillion the United States spends on health care each year, is wasted: "What counts as waste?
Comparing surgical approaches in nephrectomy patients
The retroperitoneal approach to laparoscopic nephrectomy may provide a suitable alternative to the transperitoneal approach for patients, show findings from a literature review.
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