Nursing Homes in Alvarado, TX
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 Alvarado Ltc Partners Inc Medicare and Medicaid Location: 101 N Parkway, Alvarado, Texas 76009 Ratings: Phone: (817) 790-3304 |
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Organ-on-chip consortium receives huge grant to develop a universal standard for pharmaceutical industry
Scientists are pushing ahead building 'organ-on-chips', small chips with human cells, which are useful, for example, for studying cancerous metastases in the bloodstream or the development of scar tissue, or for testing the effect of drugs or food outside a human body.
ACM Global acquires Phoenix PCS to expand operation in the Asia Pacific region
ACM Global Central Laboratory, a diagnostic central laboratory specializing in delivering high quality testing services which optimize clinical trial outcomes, today announced it has acquired Phoenix Pharma Central Services Pte. Ltd, a premier central laboratory services provider for Asia Pacific clinical trials, with laboratory facilities in Singapore and Shanghai, China. The acquisition enables ACM Global to deliver increased operational and financial efficiencies to clients conducting clinical studies in the Asia Pacific region. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Researchers receive grant to investigate how gut microbiome influences breast cancer
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago have received a three-year, $900,000 Defense Department grant to investigate how the gut microbiome – the trillions of bacteria, viruses and other bugs that make our digestive systems their home – influences breast cancer.
DHA during pregnancy prevents colds in babies: Study
A new study suggests that pregnant mothers who take DHA supplements with the intent of boosting their babies' brains are also giving them some added protection against common colds.
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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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