Nursing Homes in Ogdensburg, NY
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 St Josephs Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 950 Linden Street, Ogdensburg, New York 13669 Ratings: Phone: (315) 393-3780 |
United Helpers Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 8101 State Highway 68, Ogdensburg, New York 13669 Ratings: Phone: (315) 393-0730 |
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Lack of resources, leadership hindering male circumcision campaign in Uganda, PlusNews reports
"Ugandan men have been seeking medical male circumcision in droves since the government launched a national policy in 2010, but the health system is not equipped to handle the caseload, slowing down the potential HIV prevention benefits of the campaign," PlusNews reports.
Life Technologies, Fox Chase partner to provide next-generation sequencing analysis of solid tumors
Fox Chase Cancer Center, one of the nation's leading cancer research and treatment institutions, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Life Technologies Corporation that will underpin a new program to provide next-generation sequencing analysis of solid tumors.
Blocking metastasis-promoting enzyme can prevent spread of breast cancer
In a breakthrough with important implications for the future of immunotherapy for breast cancer, UC San Francisco scientists have found that blocking the activity of a single enzyme can prevent a common type of breast cancer from spreading to distant organs.
Patient-oriented online health resources can impact clinical outcomes of pancreatic cancer patients
The Internet has become a powerful and important resource for daily life. When patients receive a medical diagnosis, particularly a difficult one like pancreatic cancer, the web can be an essential information tool, helping to enable patients to have meaningful discussions with health care providers. However, new research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center published today in JAMA Surgery suggests that online information about pancreatic cancer is often written at a prohibitively high reading level and lacks accuracy concerning alternative therapies.
People who have had a minor stroke have a 43% chance of another stroke or vascular event within 10-years
Although worldwide fatality rates from cerebrovascular disease have fallen, stroke remains one of the most serious neurological problems, and leaves many patients with a chronic disability.
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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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