Nursing Homes in Dunmore, PA
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 Dunmore Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1000 Mill Street, Dunmore, Pennsylvania 18512 Ratings: Phone: (570) 342-7624 |
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Overall benefits of HPV vaccination or frequent screening are low for women over 41
The overall potential benefits of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations or frequent HPV screenings for women over the age of 41 are low, concludes a new study published online February 15 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study found that the rate of new infections preventable by vaccination declines with age. Furthermore, new infections among women at any age typically do not progress to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 (CIN 2) or CIN 3, the precursors for cervical cancer.
Spotting eating disorder symptoms in children could help save lives, say experts
Spotting eating disorder symptoms in children as young as nine years old will allow medics to intervene early and save lives, experts say.
Antibody drug offers new therapeutic approach for treating AML
An antibody drug that targets a surface marker on cancer stem cells could offer a promising new therapeutic approach for treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a form of blood cancer that affects an estimated 50,000 people in Saudi Arabia.
Women who compete in martial arts and combat sports challenge gender norms
Women who compete in martial arts and combat sports challenge gender norms in their profession but often embrace them wholeheartedly and even overdo them in their personal lives, finds a UC Riverside study published in Sociology of Sport Journal.
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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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