Nursing Homes in Lock Haven, PA
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 Haven Place Medicare and Medicaid Location: 24 Cree Drive, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 17745 Ratings: Phone: (570) 893-5132 |
Susque View Home, Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 22 Cree Drive, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 17745 Ratings: Phone: (570) 748-9377 |
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Study questions value of coated, low-dose aspirin therapy
Roughly one-fifth of Americans take low-dose aspirin every day for heart-healthy benefits. But, based on either urine or blood tests of how aspirin blocks the stickiness of platelets - blood cells that clump together in the first stages of forming harmful clots - up to one third of patients are deemed unlikely to benefit from daily use. Such patients are called "aspirin resistant." Clots are the main cause of most heart attacks and strokes.
New research points to potential target for treating triple negative breast cancer
New research from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Georgia Regents University finds that a protein that fuels an inflammatory pathway does not turn off in breast cancer, resulting in an increase in cancer stem cells. This provides a potential target for treating triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of the disease.
Tight diabetes control does not impact cognitive ability in type 1 diabetes
A study led by researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center provides good news for patients with type 1 diabetes who want to maintain tight blood glucose control and thus significantly reduce their risk of developing the devastating complications of the disease, heart disease, kidney failure, eye disease and blindness and nerve damage.
Dental clinic reveals need in Los Angeles area while North Carolina County may cut dental care for many Medicaid patients
More than 100 who had waited for care were asked to return next week for services. In all, volunteers saw 1,157 patients, 64 of them minors. Overwhelmed by demand for dental services, organizers of a massive free mobile health clinic asked some patients who had Tuesday appointments to return next week, a hitch in an otherwise smooth first day at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
Researchers study how herpesviruses contribute to increased oral inflammation
A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Illinois at Chicago researchers study how herpesviruses, and their underlying molecular mechanisms, contribute to increased inflammation in oral diseases, like periodontitis
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