Nursing Homes in Honesdale, PA - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Ellen Memorial Health Care Center
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 23 Ellen Memorial Lane, Honesdale, Pennsylvania 18431
Ratings: Phone: (570) 253-5690

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TNF inhibitors may minimally increase risk of serious infections

Biologic drugs have revolutionized treatment of autoimmune diseases during the past decade despite belief there is an increased risk for serious infections from using them. But new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics reveals that a class of biologics called tumor necrosis factor antagonists, or TNF inhibitors, may only minimally increase risk compared to more traditional therapies.

Amarin reports top-line results from AMR101 Phase 3 trial for treatment of high triglycerides

Amarin Corporation plc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a focus on cardiovascular disease, today reported positive, statistically significant top-line results from the MARINE study, its first Phase 3 clinical trial of lead drug candidate AMR101.

Chromosomes tell tale of patient's risk for new, future cancer

Hodgkin's disease survivors who have greater genetic instability in their white blood cells are two-and-a-half times more likely to develop another type of cancer, researchers from The University of Texas M. D.Anderson Cancer Center report at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Los Angeles April 14-18.

Henry Schein signs strategic partnership to distribute Brain-Pad's NatureZone UV/Ozone oral sanitizer

Henry Schein, Inc., the largest distributor of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, today announced a new strategic partnership with Brain-Pad. Under a new five year agreement, Henry Schein Dental will be the exclusive professional dental distributor in the U.S. and Canada for the NatureZone™ one-touch UV/Ozone oral appliance sanitizer.

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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