Cattle country responds to recent cancer report
Weld County residents take meat study with grain of salt
DATE: Nov 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Help for doctors’ suicidal thoughts
CHICAGO – Doctors-in-training face long, stressful hours, sleepless nights and a high risk of depression and suicidal thoughts, but often are too stoic and time-starved to seek help. A study...
DATE: Nov 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Health Briefs
Health insurance marketplace discussed
“Understanding Colorado’s Health Insurance Marketplace” will be presented by Kevin O’Connor, health coverage guide for San Juan Basin Health...
DATE: Nov 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Teens spend an average of 9 hours a day with media
NEW YORK – Teenagers spend nearly nine hours a day absorbing media and despite all the new options, music and television remain the favorites.
Common Sense Media has released an e...
DATE: Nov 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
New push for pint-sized medical devices to treat sick kids
WASHINGTON – Improvise isn’t a word parents want to hear from their kid’s doctor. Yet pediatric specialists too often have to jury-rig care because many of the medical devices needed to trea...
DATE: Nov 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Health Briefs
Free class to address prediabetes diagnosis
People who have prediabetes are invited to attend a free class by Sheena Carswell and Marge Morris from 9 to 11 a.m. Nov. 6 in Suite 14...
DATE: Oct 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
3 ways to help yourself feel safe in an insane world
Anxiety affects 40M Americans
DATE: Oct 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
A surprising link between indoor carbon dioxide levels, cognitive function
In a development likely to sharpen debate about indoor environment conditions in office buildings, a study published Monday reports that workers showed significantly lowered cognitive functi...
DATE: Oct 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Colo. health exchange ready for failed co-op’s customers
DENVER (AP) – The leader of the state health exchange expressed confidence Monday that most people losing Colorado HealthOP policies will stay with the exchange.
The largest insur...
DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Plague may have been spreading much earlier than once believed
LONDON – The plague was spreading nearly 3,000 years before previously thought, scientists say after finding traces of the disease in the teeth of ancient people – a discovery that could pro...
DATE: Oct 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Doctor puts mind to mindfulness, discovers meditation’s benefits
A few summers ago during a weeklong vacation, I started playing a mind game. In the mornings, I would sit outside on a comfortable deck chair, surrounded by the shrill call of cicadas, and g...
DATE: Oct 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
Health Briefs
United Blood Services announces drives
United Blood Services will host these blood drives:
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 3 in the gym of Dolores High School, 1301 Central, Dol...
DATE: Oct 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health
