Nursing Homes in Harleysville, PA
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 Peter Becker Community Medicare and Medicaid Location: 800 Maple Avenue, Harleysville, Pennsylvania 19438 Ratings: Phone: (215) 256-9501 |
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Advanced Targeting Systems receives NCI award to advance SP-SAP drug
Advanced Targeting Systems, the company that pioneered the targeting of specific cell types to manipulate them for the treatment of diseases and for research into the function of biological systems, has been awarded $3 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Antiretroviral drug discounts should be extended for countries classified as 'middle-income'
Pricing antiretroviral drugs and other "lifesaving" medications based on a country's gross national income per capita "seems particularly arbitrary - and even cruel" - given that HIV-positive people often have incomes "well below what might be considered a country's 'average' income," Jorge Saavedra Lopez.
Smoking ban contributes to fewer heart attack deaths: Study
A new study finds that the number of deadly heart attacks in Massachusetts fell by more than 7 percent after the state outlawed smoking in workplaces, a possible sign that the ban contributed to better health as fewer people found themselves around smoke.
Innovative antibody delivery method could offer effective way to combat Ebola infection
More than 11,000 people died during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013-16, demonstrating both the deadly nature of the virus and the limitations of the medication used to fight it.
Neomend receives PMA from FDA for Progel Extended Applicator Spray Tip
Neomend, Inc., a leading innovator in sealant and adhesion-prevention products for the surgical marketplace, said it has received premarket approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use of the company's new Progel Extended Applicator Spray Tip.
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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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