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Colorado extends child health care program
Congress fails to renew funding for 9 million kids
DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
Striking a chord, NIH taps the brain to find how music heals
WASHINGTON – Like a friendly Pied Piper, the violinist keeps up a toe-tapping beat as dancers weave through busy hospital hallways and into the chemotherapy unit, patients looking up in surp...
DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
Loneliness seems to damage health, triggering inflammation and neurological changes
Loneliness can tank your mood, but can it affect your health, too?
All signs point to yes.
It turns out that feeling lonely can do more than make you sad: It can predic...
DATE: Dec 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
A CDC ban on ‘fetus’ and ‘transgender’? Experts alarmed
NEW YORK – Health leaders say they are alarmed about a report that officials at the nation’s top public health agency are being told not to use certain words or phrases in official budget do...
DATE: Dec 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
Dolores leukemia patient donates his art prize to injured student
Nick Lester’s artwork selected for Children’s Hospital holiday card
DATE: Dec 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
Researcher aims to stall deadly symptoms of rattlesnake bite
Doctor develops way to slow down spread of poison
DATE: Dec 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Q&A: How is the U.S. opioid crisis affecting children?
NEW YORK – Public attention to the historic wave of opioid addiction gripping the U.S. has focused mostly on its effect on adults and the thousands who have died of overdoses. Missed by much...
DATE: Dec 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes
MARION, Ind. – She was first roused awake at 2:30 a.m. by a call seeking an emergency placement for a child. Ninety minutes later, it was a storm of texts telling of a problem at a foster ho...
DATE: Dec 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
Deaths from window blinds show need for cord ban, study says
CHICAGO – Children’s injuries and deaths from window blinds have not stalled despite decades of safety concerns, according to a new U.S. study that recommends a complete ban on blinds with c...
DATE: Dec 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
Heart Safe La Plata to recognize life savers
Heart Safe La Plata will present awards to people who have saved or attempted to save someone experiencing cardiac arrest.
The awards ceremony will take place Monday during halfti...
DATE: Dec 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
Blood test may help predict which breast cancers will recur
A blood test five years after breast cancer treatment helped identify some women who were more likely to relapse, long before a lump or other signs appeared, a preliminary study found. ...
DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
New studies show that even light activity is healthier than previously thought
As if you needed another reason to make fitness your New Year’s resolution: Two recent mortality studies have produced evidence that exercise – even light activity such as vacuuming or walki...
DATE: Dec 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health
