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Mercy Regional Medical Center receives two national awards

Mercy Regional Medical Center received two national distinctions in quality excellence from Healthgrades, including the 2017 Patient Safety Excellence Award and the 2017 Outstanding Patient ...

Community Health Action Coalition to hold monthly meeting at rec center

Community Health Action Coalition will be hold its monthly membership meeting from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 14, in the Eolus Room at Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave. ...

Community Health Action Coalition to offer advance care planning presentations

Community Health Action Coalition will offer free educational presentations to groups that want to learn about advance care planning. The initiative, “My Life: Planning in Advanc...

Survey shows why doctors choose medicine and the challenges they face

She was just 15 when it happened. She started having trouble breathing when she ran cross-country, and she felt intense itching on her body, especially her lower limbs. She would stay up all...

Pagosa Springs Medical Center to open new outpatient wing

Pagosa Springs Medical Center is scheduled to open a new outpatient wing on Monday, April 10, to complete Phase 1 of the center’s master plan. The new two-story wing will house ...

Long-term aspirin use associated with reduced risk of dying from cancer

Long-term use of aspirin is associated with lower risk of dying from various types of cancers, including colorectal, lung, breast and prostate cancer, according to a study presented at the 2...

Talk to address treating seasonal allergies

Advanced Allergy Relief Center of the Southwest will offer a talk, “Seasonal Allergies and Allergic Asthma: An Alternative Solution,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at Durango Public Librar...

San Juan Basin Public Health starts five-year assessment

San Juan Basin Public Health announced the launch of its community health assessment, during National Public Health Week, April 3-9. As a result of the 2008 Colorado Public Health...

A diet that’s beneficial to everyone but used by few

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (aka the DASH diet) is celebrating 20 years of helping people with hypertension and pre-hypertension lower blood pressure just as well as some medicat...

Most young people say government should pay for health care

WASHINGTON – Most young Americans want any health care overhaul under President Donald Trump to look a lot like the Affordable Care Act signed into law by his predecessor, President Barack O...

A ‘sci-fi’ cancer therapy fights brain tumors, study finds

WASHINGTON – It sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadl...

U.S. enrolls volunteers in large test of possible Zika vaccine

WASHINGTON – U.S. health officials have begun enrolling volunteers for critical next-stage testing of an experimental vaccine to protect against Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that can cause...
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