Nursing Homes in Anderson, MO
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 Mcdonald County Living Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1000 Patterson Street, Anderson, Missouri 64831 Ratings: Phone: (417) 845-3351 |
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Household smoking restrictions more strongly associated with better health status than workplace smoking restrictions
In the first study of its kind to evaluate how smoking restrictions in the workplace and at home affect health status, researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health found that nonsmokers who live under both a total household and total workplace smoking ban are over two and a half times more likely to report better health than those without smoking bans.
New international research project identifies subtypes of ocular melanoma
A new international research project, involving the University of Liverpool's leading eye cancer research group, has identified specific subtypes of ocular melanoma that will help develop improved management strategies and therapies in the future.
No link between short term cell phone use and brain cancer
Cell phones have not been found to be associated with any biological or adverse health effects, according to the UK's largest investigation into the possible health risks from cell telephone technology.
Testosterone replacement therapy may benefit male cancer survivors with testosterone deficiency
A new study has found that many male cancer survivors who develop testosterone deficiency after receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy have an impaired quality of life and reduced energy levels. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that young male cancer survivors with testosterone deficiency may benefit from testosterone replacement therapy.
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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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