Nursing Homes in Weirton, WV
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 Weirton Geriatric Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 2525 Pennsylvania Avenue, Weirton, West Virginia 26062 Ratings: Phone: (304) 723-4300 |
Weirton Medical Center Medicare and Medicaid Location: 601 Colliers Way, Weirton, West Virginia 26062 Ratings: Phone: (304) 797-6000 |
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India must enhance HIV/AIDS programs in Uttar Pradesh to defeat epidemic
India must scale up its HIV/AIDS programs in the densely populated state of Uttar Pradesh to accurately estimate the number of HIV-positive people and curb the epidemic, according to HIV/AIDS advocates, Reuters India reports.
Merck Canada announces $6.8 million investment in AmorChem for biopharmaceutical research
Merck Canada announced today a $6.8 million investment in AmorChem, a Quebec life sciences venture capital fund. This is the latest investment made by Merck following a commitment made in 2010 to invest an incremental $100 million over five years in biopharmaceutical research and development in Quebec.
Presentations on efficacy of interferon to combat influenza
Amarillo Biosciences, Inc. (ABI) today announced that Professor Dr. Otto Haller from the Department of Virology, Freiburg University, Germany and Professor Dr. Oliver Planz from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Tubingen, Germany gave two separate presentations on the efficacy of interferon to combat influenza.
Pathogenic microbes can suppress immune system in newborns
Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterial pathogen that causes sepsis and meningitis in newborn infants, is able to shut down immune cell function in order to promote its own survival, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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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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