Nursing Homes in Algoma, WI
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 Algoma Medical Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 1510 Fremont St, Algoma, Wisconsin 54201 Ratings: Phone: (920) 487-5511 |
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ImmunoCellular receives U.S. patent allowance for cancer stem cell treatment
ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel immune-based cancer therapies, announced the allowance of U.S. patent claims related to the Company's method of treating glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) in a patient by targeting cancer stem cells.
Mortality risk from long-term exposure to traffic pollution
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Nearly half of employers may stop employee's health benefits
A latest speculation suggests that nearly a third of employers are likely to stop offering health insurance to employees in 2014 when major federal healthcare-reform provisions kick in. This comes from a new report by McKinsey Quarterly.
Survey shows nearly 90% of patients on warfarin would like to self-monitor
Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland launches the next generation of INR patient self-monitoring meter for people on warfarin anticoagulant therapy.
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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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