Nursing Homes in Elkin, NC
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 Chatham Nursing & Rehabilitation Medicare and Medicaid Location: 700 Johnston Ridge Road, Elkin, North Carolina 28621 Ratings: Phone: (336) 527-7600 |
Pruitthealth-elkin Medicare and Medicaid Location: 560 Johnson Ridge Road, Elkin, North Carolina 28621 Ratings: Phone: (336) 835-7802 |
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BioMimetic Therapeutics reports net loss of $7.7M for second-quarter 2010
BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. today reported its financial results as of and for the three and six months ended June 30, 2010. For the three months ended June 30, 2010, the Company reported a net loss of $7.7 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $6.3 million, or $0.32 per diluted share, for the same period in 2009. For the six months ended June 30, 2010, the Company reported a net loss of $16.2 million, or $0.73 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $14.3 million, or $0.75 per diluted share, for the same period in 2009.
Scientists link cell's protein recycling systems
Many age-related neurological diseases are associated with defective proteins accumulating in nerve cells, suggesting that the cell's normal disposal mechanisms are not operating correctly.
Keck Medicine of USC study identifies potential therapeutic target for inflammation
Molecular microbiologists from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have discovered that mice lacking a specific component of the immune system are completely resistant to sepsis, a potentially fatal complication of infection.
Prenatal exposure to piperonyl butoxide increases risk of noninfectious cough in children
Children exposed in the womb to the widely used pesticide additive piperonyl butoxide (PBO) have heightened risk of noninfectious cough at ages 5 and 6, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health and of Columbia University Medical Center.
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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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