Nursing Homes in New Martinsville, WV
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 New Martinsville Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 225 Russell Avenue, New Martinsville, West Virginia 26155 Ratings: Phone: (304) 455-2600 |
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Penn researchers identify possible new way to fight rare blood disorder
A University of Pennsylvania research team has defined a possible new way to fight a disease that is currently treatable only with the most expensive drug available for sale in the United States. In a study published this month in Blood, the Penn team describes the strategy, based on the oldest part of the human immune system - called "complement" - that could turn out to be less costly and more effective for the majority of patients with a rare blood disorder.
Study "on-the-job physical activity" released
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) recently released results of its exclusive study that examined on-the-job physical activity of 10 common occupations.
Exiqon licenses LNA technology to BD for diagnosing infectious diseases
Exiqon A/S, today announced that it has granted a non-exclusive license to BD to use Exiqon's proprietary locked nucleic acids technology in defined products for infectious disease diagnostics.
Researchers find gamma-secretase modulators being tested for Alzheimer's work in unexpected and beneficial ways
Researchers at Mayo Clinic, with their national and international collaborators, have discovered how a class of agents now in testing to treat Alzheimer's disease work, and say they may open up an avenue of drug discovery for this disease and others.
Researchers identify molecule that plays key role in aggressive thyroid cancer, other cancers
Cancer researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Florida, have identified a molecule they say is important to survival of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) — a lethal tumor with no effective therapies.
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