Nursing Homes in Tigard, OR
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 Avamere Rehabilitation Of King City Medicare and Medicaid Location: 16485 Sw Pacific Highway, Tigard, Oregon 97224 Ratings: Phone: (503) 620-5141 |
Pacific Health And Rehabilitation Medicare and Medicaid Location: 14145 Sw 105th Avenue, Tigard, Oregon 97224 Ratings: Phone: (503) 639-1144 |
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Scientists study genetic, social and dietary factors influencing child obesity
Childhood obesity has more than doubled in the past 30 years. Now, an extensive and long-term research project aims at identifying the causes of this dramatic increase. In a study including 16.000 children from across Europe and spanning over several years, scientists are now trying to determine possible genetic and social factors influencing obesity in children.
Silence Therapeutics receives patent for RNA silencing method
Silence Therapeutics plc announces the issuance of United States patent 7,772,203, titled "Methods and Compositions for Controlling Efficacy of RNA Silencing," by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The issued patent generally claims methods of enhancing RNA silencing with a double stranded RNA interference (RNAi) agent. The patent's RNA silencing method claims include coverage for the administering of a pharmaceutical composition containing short interfering RNA (siRNA), micro RNA (miRNA), pre-miRNA or short hairpin (shRNA) molecules. Silence believes the proprietary structural modification techniques covered in this patent will play a key role in increasing the potential therapeutic efficacy of RNAi therapeutics.
Sonova completes acquisition of Insound Medical, sees growth potential in Lyric brand of hearing systems
Sonova Holding AG, the world's leading provider of hearing systems, announced today that it has successfully completed its acquisition of InSound Medical Inc., Newark, USA. InSound Medical developed the first extended wear hearing system which is placed deep in the ear canal and totally invisible from the outside, and markets it under the Lyric® brand.
Patients tend to have worse outcomes when GBM appears in more than one location
When aggressive, malignant tumors appear in more than one location in the brain, patient survival tends to be significantly shorter than when the disease starts as a single tumor, even though patients in both groups undergo virtually identical treatments, according to research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Research Institute.
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