Nursing Homes in Girard, PA
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 Pleasant Ridge Manor East/west Medicare and Medicaid Location: 8300 West Ridge Road, Girard, Pennsylvania 16417 Ratings: Phone: (814) 474-5521 |
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Marking World Health Day, WHO warns misuse of antibiotics undermining global fight against infectious diseases
U.N. officials on Thursday marked World Health Day with a warning that "the misuse and irrational use of antibiotics has undermined the global fight against tuberculosis and malaria, warning of a possible return to the days before the drugs were developed," and called for urgent action to control the spread of drug resistance, Reuters reports.
Cellular communication in emotion-processing brain region motivates us to keep eating tasty food
When you eat something super tasty, ever wonder why you really don't want to stop even though you know you've eaten enough? Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine may have found the reason.
Study shows how brain genes influence food intake and dietary preferences
Have you ever wondered why you keep eating certain foods, even if you know they are not good for you? Gene variants that affect the way our brain works may be the reason, according to a new study. The new research could lead to new strategies to empower people to enjoy and stick to their optimal diets.
Rapid, award winning diagnostic tests to be presented at MEDICA
A Bloxham-based company focused on improving the usability, safety and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests will present its fully integrated AtomoRapid™ product range at MEDICA 2015, the world's largest medical trade fair.
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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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