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Farmington hospital offers free flu vaccinations San Juan Regional Medical Center will offer free vaccinations at five different Four Corners locations. The “Fight the...

Health Briefs

Breast cancer month aims to raise awareness San Juan Basin Health Department urges women 40 and older to talk with their doctors during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in O...

30 minutes of daily exercise questioned: It may not be enough

If you’re among of the millions of Americans who dutifully carve out 30 minutes a day for the moderate-intensity exercise recommended by experts based on the idea that you’re doing all you c...

This drug screener brings the test to you

Mobile Jo aims to ease pressures for people in need

Zip line popularity soars along with injuries, study finds

CHICAGO – Injuries from zip line accidents have soared along with the popularity of an activity that hurtles riders through the air, sometimes at dizzying heights above ground, a study of U....

Transplanting ovarian tissue helps some women have babies

LONDON – The biggest study ever of women who had ovarian tissue removed, frozen and transplanted suggests the experimental technique is safe and can help about one third of them have babies....

Low-nicotine cigarettes cut use, dependence, study finds

A new study might help the push for regulations to limit nicotine in cigarettes. Smokers who switched to special low-nicotine ones wound up smoking less and were more likely to try to quit, ...

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Food safety training available Food safety training required for Colorado cottage-food producers and egg producers will be held from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 19 or from 9:30 a.m. to...

To live past 110 is all in the genes

Known as Wall Street’s oldest stockbroker, Irving Kahn died this year at the age of 109. He was born in 1905, made his first trade in 1929 before the Great Depression hit and continued to wo...

As leaves turn, flu season returns

Season typically lasts from the early fall to the late spring

Don’t get drunk: Advice college kids may not get from doctors

CHICAGO – Government researchers say “deplorably” few college students are warned by doctors about the danger from alcohol and drugs or encouraged to reduce drinking or substance use. ...

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United Blood Services announces drives United Blood Services will host these blood drives: 1:30 to 5 p.m. Oct. 1 at the First Methodist Church, 515 N. Park, Cortez. ...
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