Nursing Homes in Lehighton, PA
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 Summit At Blue Mountain Nursing & Rehab Ctr, The Medicare and Medicaid Location: 211 North 12th Street, Lehighton, Pennsylvania 18235 Ratings: Phone: (610) 377-7206 |
Mahoning Valley Nursing And Re Medicare and Medicaid Location: 397 Hemlock Drive, Lehighton, Pennsylvania 18235 Ratings: Phone: (570) 386-5522 |
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New drug launches for HCV in the Philippines to increase market earned revenues to $4.5 billion by 2017
Efforts to raise disease awareness in the Philippines have increased the number of cases and patient pool available for hepatitis C treatment. Screening and detection efforts by the Red Cross as well as growing awareness in the Philippines have been largely responsible for the rise in the number of diagnosed cases. These campaigns have encouraged people, mostly from the urban areas, to opt for physical examinations that enable the detection of hepatitis C.
New technique could enable real-time distribution monitoring of ticks that carry Lyme disease
The findings of a recent analysis conducted by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest that ecosystems suitable for harboring ticks that carry debilitating Lyme disease could be more widespread than previously thought in California, Oregon and Washington.
SARS-CoV-2 Spike may trigger production of antibodies that cross-react with human thrombopoietin to induce thrombocytopenia
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected individuals often suffer from thrombocytopenia, a condition associated with low platelet counts. The cytokine thrombopoietin regulates platelet count. Previous studies have reported that thrombocytopenia can increase the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality rate by about five times.
BIDMC scientist presented with 2010 Arthur Steindler Award
Christopher Evans, PhD, director of the Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Maurice Edmond Mueller Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, was presented with the 2010 Arthur Steindler Award at this week's annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in New Orleans.
Simple tips to keep summer injury-free
Trauma and injury remains a devastating problem in the U.S. It is the leading cause of death for those under the age of 45.
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