Large-scale study: Short men and overweight women get a raw deal in life
Many destined to make less money than their taller, fitter peers
DATE: Mar 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Sleep deprivation can give you the ‘marijuana munchies’
WASHINGTON – If you’ve pulled an all-nighter and spent the next day feeling ravenously hungry as if you were in the movie “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” scientists may have just figure...
DATE: Mar 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
Health Briefs
Cancer patients can join support group
Blueprints of Hope invites people who are experiencing any phase of a cancer diagnosis to the program “Cancer Journaling: The Healing Power ...
DATE: Mar 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
Drug overdose deaths increase
Montezuma County sheriff reissues call for a detox center
DATE: Mar 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
Surgeons perform nation’s first uterus transplant
CLEVELAND – Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the nation’s first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy.
In a s...
DATE: Mar 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
Health Briefs
Free dental clinics set for two schools
Free dental clinics for La Plata County students will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school-based health centers at Durango High S...
DATE: Mar 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
Anti-AIDS vaginal ring partially protects women
WASHINGTON – In a new approach to HIV prevention, women modestly reduced their risk of infection by inserting a vaginal ring coated with an anti-AIDS drug once a month, according to two long...
DATE: Feb 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
Annual 9Health Fair to offer affordable services
9Health coming to Durango in March
DATE: Feb 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
Infrared camera exposes invisible pollutants in Southwest
Environmental group scours Four Corners for leaks
DATE: Feb 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
‘Our little black secret’
Colorado’s African American infants die three times more often than white infants
DATE: Feb 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
New Mexico lawmakers want federal probe of suspension of Medicaid funds
ALBUQUERQUE – Democrats with the state’s congressional delegation are calling for a federal investigation into the withholding of Medicaid payments from 15 nonprofits that provided behaviora...
DATE: Feb 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Health Briefs
Coalition announces 2015 Health Hero
Members of the Community Health Action Coalition named Dr. Robert Cox as their 2015 Health Hero.
Cox has been involved with CHAC ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Health
