Nursing Homes in Childress, TX
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 Childress Healthcare Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1200 7th St Nw, Childress, Texas 79201 Ratings: Phone: (940) 937-8668 |
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Aspirin can prevent stroke and heart attacks: Study
In a large scale Australian study, researchers have found that Aspirin can save lives and drastically reduce rates of stroke and heart attack.
Hair dyes raise the risk of breast cancers especially among black women says study
A new study has confirmed that permanent hair dyes and chemical hair straightener use are associated with breast cancers especially among African American women. There have been animal studies that reveal that these hair dyes and chemicals used for straightening the hair are associated with cancers. Human studies however have not shown consistent results establishing the relationship between the chemicals and the cancers.
New antidotes for organophosphates are needed to prepare for chemical attacks in the West
Organophosphates are a group of organic compounds containing phosphorus, some of which are used as pesticides. Organophosphates have also been used in chemical weapons and nerve gas attacks, such as the sarin attack in Japan.
Study provides ‘big picture' of cognitive flexibility
A healthy brain can quickly switch its focus from the large shapes to the individual parts that make up the bigger pictures.
Media coverage of persistent vegetative state and end-of-life decision-making
In 1990, Theresa Schiavo, an American citizen, had a cardiac arrest that caused irreversible brain damage which led to a persistent vegetative state diagnosis. A few years later, this diagnosis became a source of conflict over the interruption of artificial nutrition.
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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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