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To boost workforce, medical schools try to sell rural life

BRISTOL, Va. – On a field trip to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Ashish Bibireddy put on headphones and scrolled through a jukebox of music from an influential 1927 recording sessio...

DATE: Aug 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Three Springs MRI to provide higher quality scans with new technology

Better images allow for better diagnoses

DATE: Aug 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Impossible Whopper not fooling Durango taste-testers

Plant-based patty touts flavor of real meat

DATE: Aug 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths

NEW YORK – Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three de...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Is pot safe when pregnant?

Study seeks answer, draws critics

DATE: Aug 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Cities again see more overdose deaths than country towns

NEW YORK – U.S. drug overdose deaths had been most common in Appalachia and other rural areas in recent years, but they are back to being more concentrated in big cities, according to a gove...

DATE: Aug 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Hurry up and wait: Doctors say insurers increasingly interfere

After Kim Lauerman was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, doctors wanted to give her a drug that helps prevent infections and fever during chemotherapy. Her insurer said no. Anthem Bl...

DATE: Aug 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

New standards aim to improve surgery for the oldest patients

WASHINGTON – The 92-year-old had a painful tumor on his tongue, and major surgery was his best chance. Doctors called a timeout when he said he lived alone, in a rural farmhouse, and wanted ...

DATE: Jul 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Study: Millions should stop taking aspirin for heart health

WASHINGTON – Millions of people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack may need to rethink the pill-popping, Harvard researchers reported Monday. A daily low-dose aspirin is r...

DATE: Jul 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Diplomats’ brain scans show differences, add to Cuba mystery

CHICAGO – Advanced brain scans found perplexing differences in U.S. diplomats who say they developed concussion-like symptoms after working in Cuba, a finding that only heightens the mystery...

DATE: Jul 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

New clues on why women’s Alzheimer’s risk differs from men’s

LOS ANGELES (AP) – New research gives some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex. ...

DATE: Jul 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Number of U.S. overdose deaths appears to be falling

NEW YORK – U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on...

DATE: Jul 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

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