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Health agency takes on advertising for electronic cigarettes

NEW YORK – The nation’s lead public health agency on Tuesday focused its attack on electronic cigarettes on the issue of advertising, saying too many kids see the ads. There are b...

Colorado health exchange trying to attract more businesses

Insurance costs still higher in rural Colorado

Italy confirms higher cancer, death rates from mob dumping

Babies, especially, affected by the waste

Health Briefs

Heart Safe to offer two CPR classes Heart Safe La Plata, a local nonprofit organization, will offer these CPR classes at Durango Fire Protection District’s Station 1, 142 Sheppard...

The science of the hangover

No magic cure, but you can limit day-after damage

Asthma rates among children fall

CHICAGO – Asthma rates in U.S. children have quieted down after a decades-long increase, a government study found, and researchers are trying to pinpoint reasons that would explain the trend...

Twin birth rates hit an all-time high in the United States

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a final report on births in the United States in 2014, showing an all-time record number of twins. We’re not talking about a monum...

Can you be fit but fat? Researchers say it may be a myth

One of the most controversial ideas in medical science today is whether people can really be fat and fit. That is, is weight in itself a marker of health – or simply a suggestion of a person...

For kids, free surgery can change a life

Nonprofit Mending Kids looks to offer services to children in Four Corners

Twin birth rate hits an all-time high

NEW YORK – The twin birth rate hit at an all-time high last year in the United States while the rate for triplets, quadruplets, and higher was the lowest in two decades. Of the ne...

Health Briefs

Deadline extended for HealthOp customers Connect for Health Colorado has granted an enrollment extension for former Colorado HealthOp customers. The enrollment deadlin...

FDA eases restrictions on blood donations from gay men

WASHINGTON – The nation’s three-decade-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men was formally lifted Monday, but major restrictions will continue to limit who can give blood. ...
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