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Free talk to address relief from seasonal allergies

Advanced Allergy Relief Center of the Southwest will present “Seasonal Allergies and Allergic Asthma: An Alternative Solution” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, at Durango Public Library, 1900...

Popular health reform benefits Durango medical offices

Legislation rewards practices for improving care

Bacon, soda too few nuts may kill you

CHICAGO – Gorging on bacon, skimping on nuts? These are among food habits that new research links with deaths from heart disease, strokes and diabetes. Overeating or not eating en...

Want a productive work day? Watch what you eat

Do you have days at work when you feel energetic, inspired and productive, while on other days you feel tired, busy and stressed, with almost nothing to show for your efforts at the end of t...

Risk & reward: Stopping a cancer drug to see if you’re cured

Imagine you had a life-threatening cancer that a wonder drug had kept in remission for years. Would you risk quitting? Thousands of people with a blood cancer called chronic myelo...

Those with blurry close-up vision get some new help

WASHINGTON – Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surgical repairs for the blurr...

Gene therapy lets a French teen dodge sickle cell disease

A French teen who was given gene therapy for sickle cell disease more than two years ago now has enough properly working red blood cells to dodge the effects of the disorder, researchers rep...

UN sees bird flu changes but calls risk of people spread low

LONDON – The World Health Organization says it has noticed changes in the bird flu virus now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading easily between people remains low....

Sunshine Gardens to hold health fair for seniors

Fair will connect residents with local health services

Doctors warn against teen pot use amid looser marijuana laws

CHICAGO – An influential doctors group is beefing up warnings about marijuana’s potential harms for teens amid increasingly lax laws and attitudes on pot use. Many parents use the...

The dirty dozen: UN issues list of 12 most worrying bacteria

LONDON – The World Health Organization has issued a list of the top dozen bacteria most dangerous to humans, warning that doctors are fast running out of treatment options. In a p...

Sharp vision: New glasses help the legally blind see

SAN FRANCISCO – Jeff Regan was born with underdeveloped optic nerves and had spent most of his life in a blur. Then four years ago, he donned an unwieldy headset made by a Toronto company ca...
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