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Gene therapy shows promise against blood-clotting disease

Gene therapy has freed 10 men from nearly all symptoms of hemophilia for a year so far, in a study that fuels hopes that a one-time treatment can give long-lasting help and perhaps even cure...

Naturopathic practitioner to offer free adrenal assessments

Naturopathic practitioner Nancy Utter will offer free 30-minute adrenal gland assessments from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Durango Natural Medicine, 117 County Road 250. The adren...

Durango to rally Tuesday for universal health care

Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care will bring together state organizations to hold rallies at noon Tuesday in celebration of International Health Coverage Day, which marks the ann...

U.S. flu season off to an early start; widespread in 7 states

NEW YORK – This year’s flu season is off to a quick start and so far it seems to be dominated by a nasty bug. Health officials say the flu vaccine seems well matched to the viruse...

Small risk of breast cancer seen with hormone contraceptives

CHICAGO – Modern birth control pills that are lower in estrogen have fewer side effects than past oral contraceptives. But a large Danish study suggests that, like older pills, they still mo...

‘Take all their excuses away’: Hard cases in heroin fight

More than 64,000 died of drug overdoses last year in the U.S., most from opioids

Doctors: Over a year to see if uterus transplant successful

DALLAS – It took well over a year to determine if a woman who received a womb transplant would become the first in the U.S. to give birth, transplant surgeons in Dallas said Monday. ...

Replacing lymph nodes to ease painful legacy of cancer care

WASHINGTON – Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing – a debilitating condition that gets l...

Expanding DNA’s alphabet lets cells produce novel proteins

WASHINGTON – Scientists are expanding the genetic code of life, using man-made DNA to create a semi-synthetic strain of bacteria – and new research shows those altered microbes actually work...

First baby from a uterus transplant in the US born in Dallas

The first birth as a result of a womb transplant in the United States has occurred in Texas, a milestone for the U.S. but one achieved several years ago in Sweden. A woman who had...

CryoMedSpa therapist to present at library

Nasha Winters of CryoMedSpa will give a presentation called “A Night with Nasha: Bio-Hacking the Holidays” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. Sh...

San Juan Medical to offer cardiac screenings

San Juan Regional Medical Center cardiologists will offer teens 13 to 18 free cardiac screenings from 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 9 in the catheterization laboratory and radiology waiting area at the h...
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