Nursing Homes in Brookneal, VA
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 Heritage Hall - Brookneal Medicare and Medicaid Location: 633 Cook Avenue, Brookneal, Virginia 24528 Ratings: Phone: (434) 376-3717 |
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Chinese diners get meningitis from eating snails
As many as 50 people have been diagnosed with a form of meningitis after eating raw or half-cooked Amazonian snails in Beijing restaurants, and according to reports by the Chinese media five patients are in a serious condition at different hospitals in the capital.
MIT researchers describe new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a pair of studies in a COVID-19 special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review, freely available via open access, describing new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics and for providing more accurate measures of the probabilities of success for clinical trials of vaccines and other anti-infective therapies.
Clinical trial to determine whether vitamin D helps prevent or delay development of type 2 diabetes
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are seeking 150 to 200 adults to take part in the local arm of a major national clinical trial that will investigate whether vitamin D helps prevent or delay development of type 2 diabetes.
UCL scientists discover key brain region for navigating familiar places
UCL scientists have discovered the key brain region for navigating well-known places, helping explain why brain damage seen in early stages of Alzheimer's disease can cause such severe disorientation.
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