Nursing Homes in Hackensack, NJ
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 Care One At Wellington Medicare and Medicaid Location: 301 Union Street, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 Ratings: Phone: (201) 487-4900 |
Hackensack Meridian Health Nursing & Rehab Medicare and Medicaid Location: 50 Polifly Road, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 Ratings: Phone: (201) 646-1166 |
Hackensack Meridian Health Prospect Heights Care C Medicare Location: 336 Prospect Ave, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 Ratings: Phone: (201) 678-1800 |
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Inexpensive exome sequencing can quickly detect heterogeneous diseases
The first report of the diagnostic use of the technique of exome sequencing, where short sequences of DNA are analysed, shows that it can give good results at low cost, a researcher from The Netherlands will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics.
Combination of easily accessible tests can enable early, reliable diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed an algorithm that combines data from a simple blood test and brief memory tests, to predict with great accuracy who will develop Alzheimer's disease in the future.
Successful full face transplant in a 22 hour long operation: Barcelona
In a recent development a team of 30 Spanish surgeons have succeeded in a World's first full face transplant. The patient had accidentally injured a large part of his face with a shotgun five years ago. This had left him disfigured an unable to breathe, swallow or talk properly. He has undergone nine unsuccessful operations before this operation was planned. In this operation he received the whole of his facial skin, muscles, nose, lips, teeth and cheek bones from a donor in a 22 hour operation at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital on 20th March. He is on his way to recovery now. This is not the first face transplant but the first full face transplant and also the most complex of its kind.
USA Today examines Specter's voting history, impact of moving to Democratic party
Health reform advocates believe Sen. Arlen Specter's (Pa.) recent switch to the Democratic Party improves the chances of passing a health care overhaul this year, USA Today reports.
Anemia medication recall could affect thousands of kidney-disease patients
The recall comes as a sharp blow to Affymax, a small biotechnology firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., that developed Omontys and has no other late-stage drugs in its pipeline.
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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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