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Most Legionnaires’ deaths tied to spray from shower, faucet

NEW YORK – Most deaths from Legionnaires’ disease are tied to hospital and nursing home showers, not outdoor cooling towers, new government figures released Thursday show. Cooling...

More than 1 in 10 American adults experience chronic pain, NIH says

America is a nation in pain, according to a new analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. How much pain, exactly? More than 25 million American adul...

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New Mercy clinic to treat bones, joints Mercy Regional Medical Center has opened Mercy Orthopedic Associates, a physician clinic specializing in treatment of injuries and diseases...

Kids with cancer get futuristic chance at saving fertility

CHICAGO – Barely 2 years old, Talia Pisano is getting tough treatment for kidney cancer that spread to her brain. She’s also getting a chance at having babies of her own someday. ...

Becoming a dad? Expect to gain weight

NEW YORK – Many men gain a new sense of responsibility and purpose when they become fathers. A new study suggests they also gain 3 to 5 pounds. The research wasn’t designed to pro...

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Farmington hospital opens healing garden San Juan Regional Rehabilitation Hospital will celebrate its newly completed Healing Garden from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at 525 South Schwar...

Study finds teen pot use not linked to health issues

With the widespread availability of marijuana in recent years thanks to its legalization in a growing number of states, there has been increasing concern about the long-term health consequen...

Experimental Ebola vaccine could stop virus in West Africa

LONDON – An experimental Ebola vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea seems to work and might help shut down the waning epidemic in West Africa, according to interim results from a ...

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Free class can help those with prediabetes People with prediabetes are invited to attend a free class by Sheena Carswell and Marge Morris from 9 to 11 a.m. Aug. 7 in Suite 140 of ...

Sleep may cut Alzheimer’s risk

WASHINGTON – To sleep, perchance to ... ward off Alzheimer’s? New research suggests poor sleep may increase people’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease, by spurring a brain-clogging gunk that in tu...

The end-of-life discussion that has nothing to do with costs

The question about how much care to give a dying person in their last moments is one of the most contentious issues in medicine, instantly raising worries that any decision to not give a per...

Exercise good for brain, even for those with Alzheimer’s

WASHINGTON – Exercise may do more than keep a healthy brain fit: New research suggests working up a good sweat may also offer some help once memory starts to slide – and even improve life fo...
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