Nursing Homes in Grantsville, WV
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 Minnie Hamilton Health Care Medicaid Location: 186 Hospital Drive, Grantsville, West Virginia 26147 Ratings: Phone: (304) 354-9244 |
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FDA accepts OncoMed's IND filing for OMP-18R5 in Phase 1 clinical trial for advanced solid tumors
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company developing novel therapeutics that target cancer stem cells or tumor-initiating cells, today announced that the FDA has accepted an IND filing for OMP-18R5, which allows OncoMed to commence Phase 1 clinical testing.
Scientists reveal new mRNA method to deliver safe, cost-effective therapeutic antibodies
Using antibodies to treat disease has been one of the great success stories of early 21st-century medicine. Already five of the ten top-selling pharmaceuticals in the United States are antibody products. But antibodies are large, complex proteins that can be expensive to manufacture.
Study uncovers how to more effectively use ECPR for better outcomes after cardiac arrest
People who suffer cardiac arrest usually have low likelihood of survival, especially if it happens out of the hospital.
Big cities face funding gaps for pensions, retiree health benefits
Major U.S. cities emerged from the financial crisis with increasingly underfunded pension and retiree health-care plans, according to a study released Tuesday.
Scientists develop new technique that results in better ways to relieve pain, monitor healing
Understanding the science behind pain, from a simple "ouch" to the chronic and excruciating, has been an elusive goal for centuries. But now, researchers are reporting a promising step toward studying pain in action.
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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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