Nursing Homes in La Crosse, WI
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 Bethany St Joseph Care Ctr Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2501 Shelby Rd, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 Ratings: Phone: (608) 788-5700 |
Hillview Health Care Ctr Medicare and Medicaid Location: 3501 Park Lane Dr, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 Ratings: Phone: (608) 789-4800 |
Benedictine Manor Of Lacrosse Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2902 East Avenue South, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 Ratings: Phone: (608) 788-9870 |
Riverside Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2575 S 7th St, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 Ratings: Phone: (608) 406-3900 |
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Multiple genomic data could help improve studies of association between genes and disease
The difference between merely throwing around buzzwords like "personalized medicine" and "big data" and delivering on their medical promise is in the details of developing methods for analyzing and interpreting genomic data. In a pair of new papers, Brown University epidemiologist Yen-Tsung Huang and colleagues show how integrating different kinds of genomic data could improve studies of the association between genes and disease.
Vical presents Phase 2 trial results of TransVax CMV vaccine at World Vaccine Congress
Vical Incorporated announced today that the company's TransVax cytomegalovirus vaccine elicited sustained increases in both cellular and antibody immune responses compared with placebo through the final 12-month follow-up in an ongoing Phase 2 trial in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients.
Polaris' ADI-PEG 20 novel anticancer drug inhibits growth of metastatic melanoma cells: Study
Physicians attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) presented evidence that pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG 20), a novel anticancer drug that targets ASS(-) tumors, and which is being developed and manufactured by Polaris Group, was effective in inhibiting the growth of metastatic melanoma cells.
Whole-body computed tomography (CT) is not a cost-effective screening method
The use of whole-body CT as a screening tool for cancer and other diseases is the focus of an ongoing debate. Proponents of whole-body CT emphasize the potential benefit of early detection of disease, but others caution that the costs, false-positive findings and unnecessary radiation might render the procedure more harmful than beneficial.
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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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