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 Fair Oaks Nursing & Rehab Llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 201 Shady Lane Drive, Wadena, Minnesota 56482 Ratings: Phone: (218) 631-1391 |
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Scientists hope crowdfunding may boost crowdsourced research project
​What if by collecting vital signs from individual cell phone users around the world, we could map symptoms of disease and see the flu coming like a giant whirling hurricane? A team of engineers, biologists and medical researchers at the University of California, San Diego wants to leverage the widespread use of smart phone technology and cloud computing to build maps of large-scale health problems or environmental damage such as the concentration of heavy metals in drinking water.
ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals and Hospira enter into exclusive agreement
ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited and Hospira, Inc. announced today that they have entered into an exclusive agreement to license, develop and commercialize ChemGenex's product candidate omacetaxine mepesuccinate, a novel targeted cytotoxic pharmaceutical product, in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa (the Territory).
Scientists lay groundwork for understanding immune responses in Lyme disease patients
A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins and Stanford University researchers has laid the groundwork for understanding how variations in immune responses to Lyme disease can contribute to the many different outcomes of this bacterial infection seen in individual patients. A report on the work appears online April 16 in PLOS One.
Insecticide-treated net reduces malaria infection in pregnant women, but simple measures needed to increase effectiveness
A Tanzanian program to supply insecticide treated nets to prevent malaria in pregnant women successfully delivers the intervention to only 30% of women, but simple changes could increase effectiveness, according to an article http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj090268.pdf in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) www.cmaj.ca.
Facet Biotech And Trubion to jointly develop and commercialize the TRU-016 SMIP protein therapeutic
Facet Biotech Corporation (Nasdaq: FACT) and Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRBN) today announced an agreement for the joint worldwide development and commercialization of TRU-016, a product candidate in phase 1 clinical development for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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