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Free health insurance application assistance available

La Plata Family Centers Coalition and the Archuleta County Department of Human Services will offer free health insurance consultations with trained enrollment specialists from 9 a.m. to 2 p....

Senior swimmer Katherine Kronwall is floating high on life

Forest Lakes resident Katherine Kronwall started swimming at the ripe age of 64. Sixteen years later, she is still at it, scooping up medals in her age bracket at senior events across the co...

With direct primary care, doctors choose to build relationships

A new “direct primary care” clinic recently opened in Durango, a model of health care that seeks to keep costs as well as wait times low by bucking the bureaucracy of the health insurance sy...

Resolving allergies will be discussed Nov. 10

Caleb Gates, licensed acupuncturist, will discuss how symptoms from seasonal allergies, food sensitivities and sinusitis can be resolved with Advanced Allergy Therapeutics, which is a safe, ...

Flu vaccine called a good ‘match’ this year

Vaccinations encouraged as season starts

Fatty liver disease can wage a silent war on your liver

One of the secrets to great health is a healthy liver. Modern living and lifestyle habits are very hard on this multitasking organ, and we are seeing the effects of this in the increasing pr...

3 sex-spread diseases hit another record high, CDC says

NEW YORK – Infections from three sexually spread diseases have hit another record high. Chlamydia was the most common. More than 1.5 million cases were reported in the U.S. last y...

Stress reduction workshop offered Saturday

Conflict solutions consultant, Aikido instructor and martial arts practitioner Thomas Holmes will present a Stress Reduction class from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Durango Community Recreat...

Health coalition to promote advance care planning

The Community Health Action Coalition has been awarded $199,927 in funding from the Colorado Health Foundation to promote advance care planning in La Plata County over the span of two years....

Don’t expect Fitbits to improve health, help drop pounds

LONDON – Wearing a fitness tracker may help you keep tabs on how many steps you take, but the devices themselves – even with the lure of a cash reward – probably won’t improve your health, a...

Functional medicine aims to address body, mind, spirit

When Bloomfield resident Vicki Faverino lost her only son to suicide, the trauma was too much to bear, and she had nowhere to turn. “There were times when I’d just stop breathing,...

Crowdsourcing effort takes aim at deadliest breast cancers

CHICAGO – Forget the pink ribbons. Spitting in a tube for science is what unites a growing group of breast cancer patients taking part in a unique project to advance treatment for the deadli...
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