Mercy targets emerging epidemic of fragile bone fractures
Clinic serves aging baby boomers
DATE: Jun 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Mercy Regional Medical Center to offer prediabetes class
Mercy Regional Medical Center will offer a free class for people diagnosed with prediabetes from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday in Suite 140 of the medical office building at the hospital, 1010 Three S...
DATE: Jun 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Science Says: How family separation may affect kids’ brains
CHICAGO – Doctors have long known that separating families and other traumatic events can damage children’s well-being. More recent research has shed some light on how that may happen: Sever...
DATE: Jun 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Enemy turned ally: Poliovirus is used to fight brain tumors
One of the world’s most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetica...
DATE: Jun 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Medical milestone: U.S. OKs marijuana-based drug for seizures
WASHINGTON – U.S. health regulators on Monday approved the first prescription drug made from marijuana, a milestone that could spur more research into a drug that remains illegal under feder...
DATE: Jun 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Health Services office launches smartphone app to ease state benefits
The Colorado Department of Human Services has a smartphone app to give customers instant mobile access to benefits, documents and tips.
The MyCOBenefits app can reduce customers’ ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
How do you count deaths from a hurricane?
NEW YORK – How many people died in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria?
It’s a question that has been debated since the powerful storm slammed into the island and devastated the U.S....
DATE: Jun 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Pain medicine group cancels doctor training about marijuana
Request to cancel came from a federal agency
DATE: Jun 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
San Juan Basin Public Health clinic offers contraception services
San Juan Basin Public Health works to prevent teen pregnancy through its Sexual Health Clinic.
The clinic provides annual exams, sexually transmitted infection screenings, pregna...
DATE: Jun 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
New evidence that viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s
WASHINGTON – Viruses that sneak into the brain just might play a role in Alzheimer’s, scientists reported Thursday in a provocative study that promises to re-ignite some long-debated theorie...
DATE: Jun 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Smoking hits new low; about 14 percent of U.S. adults light up
NEW YORK – Smoking in the U.S. has hit another all-time low.
About 14 percent of U.S adults were smokers last year, down from about 16 percent the year before, government figures ...
DATE: Jun 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Compulsive video-game playing could be mental health problem
GENEVA – Obsessive video gamers know how to anticipate dangers in virtual worlds. The World Health Organization says they now should be on guard for a danger in the real world: spending too ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
