Nursing Homes in Hopkins, SC
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 Sedgewood Manor Health Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1645 Ridge Road, Hopkins, South Carolina 29061 Ratings: Phone: (803) 776-3873 |
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Cantrixil drug granted FDA Orphan Drug Designation for treatment of ovarian cancer
US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, today announced that its subsidiary joint venture company with Yale University, CanTx, Inc, has today received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that its chemotherapy candidate drug, Cantrixil, has been granted Orphan Drug Designation for ovarian cancer.
Study finds new link between short sleep during pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus
A Singapore-based study has found a new health link between short sleep during pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
U.N. agencies publish 'Atlas' linking climate, health
"Two U.N. agencies on Monday presented a new tool to map health risks linked to climate change and extreme weather conditions, enabling authorities to give advance warnings and act to prevent 'climate-sensitive' diseases from spreading," Agence France-Presse reports.
Facts and tactics under fire in health care debate
ox News: "Lawmakers battled Sunday over whether demonstrations against health care reform legislation at town hall meetings across the country are real or contrived ... Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Ky., told 'FOX News Sunday' that it's not clear who's organized and who's not but that Democrats' efforts to 'demonize' the protesters reflect weak spots in the substance of their plan."
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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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