Seniors housing developers compete for Global Award

NEW YORK: The three hundred and fortieth entry for the seniors housing Global Awards for 2015 has been received.

Developers in Dubai continue to focus on launching ‘affordable’ housing projects, hoping ‘off-plan’ sales to gain traction backed by the right mix of price and payment plan Read More »

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Palliative care meets telemedecine in physician entrepreneur’s startup

DETROIT: An entrepreneur has started a palliative care business. It uses telemedicine both as a way to give primary care staff and specialists palliative care training and as a way to check in on patients from their homes in rural areas where they don’t necessarily Read More »

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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

TULSA: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers. But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to Read More »

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Proteomics provides new leads into nerve regeneration

PORTLAND: Using proteomics techniques to study injured optic nerves, researchers have identified previously unrecognized proteins and pathways involved in nerve regeneration. Adding back one of these proteins—the oncogene c-myc—they achieved unprecedented optic nerve regeneration in mice when combined with two other known strategies.

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