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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...

Brain and arm implants help paralyzed man feed himself

LONDON – A paralyzed man was able to feed himself for the first time in eight years, after doctors implanted sensors in his brain that sent signals to his arm. Bill Kochevar was p...

Community Health Action Coalition offers free education about advance care planning

The Community Health Action Coalition is offering a free educational presentation about advance care planning. “My Life: Planning in Advance,” an initiative funded by the Colorado...

Mercy to offer free class for those with prediabetes

Mercy Regional Medical Center will offer a free class for people diagnosed with prediabetes from 9 to 11 a.m. April 7 in Suite 140 of the medical office building, 1010 Three Springs Blvd. ...

Southwest Colorado Community College expands nursing programs

Community college to offer bachelor’s degrees

FDA approves 1st drug for aggressive multiple sclerosis

TRENTON, N.J. – U.S. regulators have approved the first drug for an aggressive kind of multiple sclerosis that steadily reduces coordination and the ability to walk. The Food and ...
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