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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...

How much time should you spend on your feet? Four hours a day

You’ve probably heard that “sitting is the new smoking” – the looming health risk in the computer age. A proliferation of studies over the past decade has linked prolonged stretches of seden...

Health Briefs

United Blood Services wants you to donate The United Blood Services will host these blood drives: From noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Pine Valley Foursquare Church in the...

Study: Women with mild memory problem worsen faster than men

WASHINGTON – Older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men, researchers reported Tuesday, part of an effort to unravel why women are especially hard-hit by Alzh...

Report: ACA plans have a third fewer providers than employer-based plans

Consumers who signed up for coverage on health insurance exchanges last year have access to one-third fewer doctors and hospitals, on average, than people who have insurance through traditio...

Health Briefs

Free assessment for thyroid function Dr. Nancy Utter will offer free thyroid-gland consultations from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 17 at Durango Natural Medicine, 117 East Animas Road (...

Rough play is riskier than heading in youth soccer

CHICAGO – Heading takes the heat in youth soccer, but limiting rough play might be a better way to prevent concussions and other injuries, a nine-year study of U.S. high school games suggest...

Study shows high-risk areas for Lyme disease growing

NEW YORK – The geographic areas where Lyme disease is a bigger danger have grown dramatically, according to a new government study published Wednesday U.S. cases remain concentrat...

Study identifies 3 U.S. hot spots with the highest colon cancer death rates

Although the risk of death from colorectal cancer in the United States has dropped dramatically in recent decades, there are three “hot spots” in Appalachia and the rural South where death r...

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