Nursing Homes in Antlers, OK
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 Antlers Manor Medicare and Medicaid Location: 511 East Main, Antlers, Oklahoma 74523 Ratings: Phone: (580) 298-3294 |
Choctaw Nation Nursing Home Medicare and Medicaid Location: 400 Southwest O Street, Antlers, Oklahoma 74523 Ratings: Phone: (580) 298-5528 |
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Longer looks: Dying at home; losing religion; Obamacare 2.0
He was still her handsome father, the song-and-dance man of her childhood, with a full head of wavy hair and blue eyes that lit up when he talked. But he was gaunt now, warped like a weathered plank, perhaps by late effects of an old stroke, certainly by muscle atrophy and bad circulation in his legs. Now she was determined to fulfill her father's dearest wish, the wish so common among frail, elderly people: to die at home. But it seemed as if all the forces of the health care system were against her -; hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, insurance companies, and the shifting crosscurrents of public health care spending (Nina Bernstein, 9/25).
First patient dosed with rFVIIIFc in A-LONG trial
Biogen Idec and Swedish Orphan Biovitrum today announced that the first patient has been dosed with the companies' long-lasting recombinant Factor VIII Fc fusion protein (rFVIIIFc) in a global registrational clinical trial. The study, called A-LONG, is an open-label, multicenter, Phase 2/3 study designed to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of rFVIIIFc in previously-treated hemophilia A patients.
Preterm babies are at high risk for lower academic achievement, says researchers
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have received a five-year, $3 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Scientists uncover new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, as well as heart attack and stroke.
Study to explore differences in satisfaction levels amongst older carers of stroke survivors
Experts from Kingston University and St George's, University of London, have launched a study to examine whether people caring for family members who have had a stroke feel the social care services designed to support them, work well.
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