Nursing Homes in American Fork, UT
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 Heritage Care Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 350 East 300 North, American Fork, Utah 84003 Ratings: Phone: (801) 756-5293 |
Stonehenge Of American Fork Medicare and Medicaid Location: 538 South 500 East, American Fork, Utah 84003 Ratings: Phone: (801) 642-2000 |
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Women can have successful pregnancy after recurrent miscarriage
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Diabetes cutoffs don't quite cut it for South Asians
Individuals of South Asian origin may require closer monitoring for Type 2 diabetes, suggest researchers.
Gilead resubmits NDA for single-tablet regimen of Truvada/TMC278
Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced today that it has refiled a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the single-tablet regimen of Truvada® (emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) and Tibotec Pharmaceuticals' investigational non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor TMC278 (rilpivirine hydrochloride) for HIV-1 infection in adults.
New UW center awarded NIH funding to improve prevention and detection of cancer
Even successful methods for diagnosing, treating and caring for people who are suffering from cancer are not enough without effective, practical tools and guidance for putting those methods into practice.
Lasers and nanotubes offer potential future cancer treatments
By injecting man-made, microscopic tubes into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, scientists have discovered a way to effectively kill kidney tumors in nearly 80 percent of mice. Researchers say that the finding suggests a potential future cancer treatment for humans.
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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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