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    should i take a job for 10 dollars an hour in therapeutic recreation where i...

    ...have a certificate and years of e? years of experience and a certificate .the last jobs paid 14-15 per hour. I do not understand that this facility which is a very exclusive assisited retirement community in Branford ct is only willing to pay 10.00 to work with dementia people who are also a...
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    Autism Discovery Offers Hope For Early Blood Test And Therapeutic Options

    Researchers at the JC Self Research Institute of the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC), along with collaborators from Biolog, Inc. in California, have reported an important discovery in the understanding of autism which was published in Molecular Autism... More...
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    How is hard is the National Therapeutic Recreation Certification Test?

    I have taken the test twice and failed. I would like to know your opinion of it. How did you pass (if applicable)? Any study habits etc would be appreciated.
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    Rethinking Therapeutic Strategies That Target APOE To Slow Amyloid Plaque Accumulatio

    Scientists' picture of how a gene strongly linked to Alzheimer's disease harms the brain may have to be revised, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. People with harmful forms of the APOE gene have up to 12 times the risk of developing Alzheimer's...
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    The Search For Therapeutic Synergy In Primary Effusion Lymphoma

    Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a rare, fatal form of aggressive B-cell lymphoma caused by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). The disease most commonly occurs in immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV and the elderly. Because current treatment options are not...
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    Therapeutic Proteins Could Offer Much Needed Treatment Strategy For Metastatic Cancer

    Cancer spread or metastasis can strike unprecedented fear in the minds of cancer patients. The "seed and the soil" hypothesis proposed by Stephen Paget in 1889 is now widely accepted to explain how cancer cells (seeds) are able to generate fertile soil (the microenvironment) in distant organs...
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    Billing for Therapeutic Recreation services?

    I'm developing a therapeutic recreation program for a rehabilitation and nursing center in New York. My supervisor would like me to bill for my services, however I have no experience billing and would like some guidance. I am a CTRS so I know that I am able to bill, I just don't know where to...
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    Atox Bio Publishes Data Demonstrating The Broad Therapeutic Effect Of Its Flagship Pr

    Atox Bio announced new data in an animal model of necrotizing soft tissue infection (NSTI), commonly known as "flesh eating bacteria" demonstrating that administration of a single dose of AB103, given several hours after infection even without any antibiotics, increased survival in animals, and...
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    Study Reveals B Cells As Therapeutic Targets To Alter Obesity-Associated Inflammation

    New research from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) reveals that B cells regulate obesity-associated inflammation and type 2 diabetes through two specific mechanisms. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates the importance of continuing to...
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    T Cell-Based Immune Response To Therapeutic Vaccines Boosted By Novel Aptamer

    A small compound called an aptamer that specifically targets and stimulates a human immune cell can greatly increase the effectiveness of an immunotherapeutic drug designed to destroy malignant or virus-infected cells. The development of a novel apatamer that recognizes activated T-lymphocytes...
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    Deciding whether to go to school for Child and Youth Care or Therapeutic Recreation?

    I'd love to get any insight from people within the Child and Youth Care or Therapeutic Recreation industries. Child and Youth Care careers could be in schools, recreation centres, family centres, camps, etc. This would be a career working closely with children and adolescents helping them with...
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    Therapeutic Window For Stroke May Be Extended By Experimental Drug: Clinical Safety T

    A team led by a physician-scientist at the University of Southern California (USC) has created an experimental drug that reduces brain damage and improves motor skills among stroke-afflicted rodents when given with federally approved clot-busting therapy. Clinical trials to test the safety of...
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    Potential New Therapeutic Target For Cancer Drugs

    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a new signal transduction pathway specifically devoted to the regulation of alternative RNA splicing, a process that allows a single gene to produce or code multiple types of protein variants. The discovery...
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    Therapeutic Promise Of New Hormone For Lowering Blood Sugar

    New evidence points to a hormone that leaves muscles gobbling up sugar as if they can't get enough. That factor, which can be coaxed out of fat stem cells, could lead to a new treatment to lower blood sugar and improve metabolism, according to a report in the April issue of Cell Metabolism, a...
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    Discovery Of Protective Gene In Fat Cells May Lead To A Therapeutic For Type 2 Diabe

    In a finding that may challenge popular notions of body fat and health, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have shown how fat cells can protect the body against diabetes. The results may lead to a new therapeutic strategy for preventing and treating type 2 diabetes and...
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    Promising Therapeutic Target For Androgenetic Alopecia In Both Men And Women With Hai

    Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified an abnormal amount a protein called Prostaglandin D2 in the bald scalp of men with male pattern baldness, a discovery that may lead directly to new treatments for the most common cause of hair loss...
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    Fibrosis - Targeting MicroRNA-21 May Have Therapeutic Benefit

    Fibrosis is a harmful build-up of excessive fibrous tissue that results in scarring, and ultimately, the loss of organ function. Although it can affect any tissue and organ system, it is most common in the heart, liver, lung, peritoneum, and kidney. The fibrotic scar tissue consists of...
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    Controlling Gene Expression With New RNA-Based Therapeutic Strategies

    Small RNA-based nucleic acid drugs represent a promising new class of therapeutic agents for silencing abnormal or overactive disease-causing genes, and researchers have discovered new mechanisms by which RNA drugs can control gene activity. A comprehensive review article in Nucleic Acid...
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    Researchers Identify A Novel Therapeutic Approach For Liver Cancer

    Cancer of the liver rare in the United States but the third-leading cause of cancer death worldwide can result from environmental exposures or infections like chronic hepatitis, but the link is poorly understood. Now, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a mechanism in...
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    Therapeutic Clues Offered By Lung Stem Cells

    Guided by insights into how mice recover after H1N1 flu, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, together with researchers at A*STAR of Singapore, have cloned three distinct stem cells from the human airways and demonstrated that one of these cells can form into...
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