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Hickenlooper, other governors release health plan
‘Bipartisan blueprint’ aims to stabilize markets
DATE: Feb 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Carbs, fat, DNA? Weight loss is finicky, new study shows
CHICAGO (AP) – A precision nutrition approach to weight loss didn’t hold up in a study testing low fat versus low carb depending on dieters’ DNA profiles.
Previous research has su...
DATE: Feb 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Stuck in an opioids crisis, officials turn to acupuncture
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Marine veteran Jeff Harris was among the first to sign up when the Providence VA hospital started offering acupuncture for chronic pain.
“I don’t like taking pa...
DATE: Feb 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus?
For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to perfect the gene edi...
DATE: Feb 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Flu shot only 36 percent effective, making bad year worse
NEW YORK – The flu vaccine is doing a poor job protecting older Americans and others against the bug that’s causing most illnesses.
Preliminary figures released Thursday suggest t...
DATE: Feb 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Acupuncturist to give allergy talk at Durango Public Library
Acupuncturist Caleb Gates will give a talk about Advanced Allergy Therapeutics at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave.
The talk, titled “Resolving Ai...
DATE: Feb 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
How best to treat opioids’ youngest sufferers? No one knows
CHICAGO – Two babies, born 15 months apart to the same young woman overcoming opioid addiction. Two very different treatments.
Sarah Sherbert’s first child was whisked away to a h...
DATE: Feb 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
First blood test to help diagnose brain injuries gets OK
CHICAGO – The first blood test to help doctors diagnose traumatic brain injuries has won U.S. government approval.
The move means Banyan Biomarkers can commercialize its test, giv...
DATE: Feb 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
14 worms pulled from woman’s eye after rare infection
NEW YORK – An Oregon woman who had worms coming out of her eye is being called the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies.
Fourteen tiny worms were remove...
DATE: Feb 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Marijuana’s 4/20 holiday tied to rise in fatal car crashes
CHICAGO – Marijuana users’ self-proclaimed holiday is linked with a slight increase in fatal U.S. car crashes, an analysis of 25 years of data found.
The study lacks evidence on w...
DATE: Feb 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Kids Rock to offer breastfeeding workshop
A winter breastfeeding workshop with Joy Frazer will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Kids Rock, 563 Main Ave.
The workshop is for pregnant women and their partners and will d...
DATE: Feb 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Physical therapist assistant completes training
Physical therapist assistant Casey Buckingham of Absolute Physical Therapy recently completed a course called “Evidence-Based Treatment of the Thoracic Spine,” which covered pathologies of t...
DATE: Feb 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
