Nursing Homes in Bloomsburg, PA
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 Sunset Ridge Healthcare And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3298 Ridge Road, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815 Ratings: Phone: (570) 784-6688 |
Bloomsburg Care Center And Rehabilitation Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 211 East First Street, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815 Ratings: Phone: (570) 784-5930 |
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DAPK1 protein may be a promising new therapeutic target for most aggressive breast cancers
Although traditionally understood to induce death in cancer cells, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that the DAPK1 protein is actually essential for growth in breast and other cancers with mutations in the TP53 gene. This discovery indicates DAPK1 may be a promising new therapeutic target for many of the most aggressive cancers.
RXi Pharmaceuticals reports positive results from second Phase 1 study with RXI‑109
RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing innovative therapies addressing major unmet medical needs using RNA-targeted technologies, today announced positive results from their second placebo-controlled Phase 1 study with RXI‑109, an sd-rxRNA compound that targets Connective Tissue Growth Factor, and is being developed for the treatment of abnormal dermal scars such as hypertrophic scars and keloids in conjunction with scar revision surgery.
Study: AAKG supplementation has no significant impact on increased blood flow
A Baylor University study has found that a popular nutritional supplement that is marketed to lead to greater muscle strength through increasing blood flow to the muscle does not increase blood flow as claimed on the bottle.
Synta presents ganetespib and elesclomol study data in cancer at AACR meeting
Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. today presented five posters at the American Association for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting. Three posters reported results from studies of ganetespib, and two posters reported results from studies of elesclomol, a small-molecule mitochondria metabolism inhibitor.
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Nursing Home
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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