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Kids Rock to offer breastfeeding workshop

A breast-feeding workshop for pregnant women and their partners will be offered from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 16 at Kids Rock, 563 Main Ave. The workshop will be taught by Joy Frazer. ...

Durango, Cortez to host Medicare, Medicaid workshop

Southwest Colorado Health Care Coalition and Onward Innovation will hold two workshops Thursday about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ emergency preparedness rule that affec...

Is it an emergency? Insurer makes patients question ER visit

INDIANAPOLIS – Alison Wrenne was making waffles for her two young children one morning when abdominal pain forced her to the floor. A neighbor who is a physician assistant urged her to go to...

Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapy

LONDON – Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to sa...

Drugstore pain pills as effective as opioids in ER patients

CHICAGO – Emergency rooms are where many patients are first introduced to powerful opioid painkillers, but what if doctors offered over-the-counter pills instead? A new study tested that app...

Herbalist to teach about medicinal mushrooms

A class about the medicinal uses of mushrooms, “Local Medicinal Mushrooms,” will be offered from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, in Durango. Herbalist and microbiologist Anna Marij...

Concerned about inflammation? These foods may help

There’s a lot of talk about inflammation and anti-inflammatory diets – but there’s also a lot of misinformation and confusion surrounding these nutrition buzz words. Many people aren’t quite...

Do I have Alzheimer’s or don’t I?

He lived with a diagnosis for years, but he may not have it

FDA moves to ax claim for heart benefits from soy foods

WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators want to remove a health claim about the heart benefits of soy from cartons of soy milk, tofu and other foods, saying the latest scientific evidence no longer sho...

‘What could help me to die?’ Doctors clash over euthanasia

GHENT, Belgium – After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister worried that her j...

Yoga Durango to offer free workshop about neurobiology

A free workshop that explains the benefits of yoga through neurobiology will be offered from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at Yoga Durango, 1140 Main Ave. Ruby Jo Walker, inter...

Heart Safe to offer first-aid, CPR classes

Local nonprofit Heart Safe La Plata will offer basic first-aid and CPR trainings in November at Durango Fire and Rescue Station 1, 142 Sheppard Drive: A basic first-aid class w...
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