Nursing Homes in Roan Mountain, TN
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 The Waters Of Roan Highlands,llc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 146 Buck Creek Road, Roan Mountain, Tennessee 37687 Ratings: Phone: (423) 772-0161 |
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Researchers develop new strategy for treating the most aggressive type of brain cancer
Researchers from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have developed a strategy for treating the most aggressive type of brain cancer in adults that combines a photoactive molecule and a chemotherapeutic agent - both encapsulated in protein-lipid nanoparticles.
Txr1 gene that affects human cancer cells' sensitivity to chemotherapy
Gene that affects human cancer cells' sensitivity to chemotherapy - an important finding in the effort to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy.
Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education announces expanded set of key competencies
The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, an international forum for developing curricula related to the health impacts of climate change, has announced an expanded set of key competencies for students of public health, nursing, and medicine.
Researchers identify smoking gun for environmental exposures to affect future generations
Grandmother's cigarette smoking could be responsible for her grandchild's asthma, and the recent discovery of this multi-generational transmission of disease suggests the environmental factors experienced today could determine the health of family members for generations to come, two Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researchers write in the March edition of Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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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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