Students skip veggies, schools dump lunches
Program falters when kids refuse to eat
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
Kids courting serious trouble when they huff
School is well underway, so here’s a pop quiz – for you parents.
What is most commonly the first drug of abuse among children and adolescents. Alcohol? Not quite. Marijuana? Think...
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch
Districts reaping fewer profits from junk food, soft-drink sales
ATLANTA – There’s been a big shift in how many school districts take money from soda companies and ban junk food from vending machines, health officials say.
A government survey f...
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
9M use sleeping pills to get some zzz’s
ATLANTA – Can’t get enough shuteye? Nearly 9 million U.S. adults resort to prescription sleeping pills – and most are white, female, educated or 50 or older, according to the first governmen...
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
New cap to curb fatal Tylenol overdoses
WASHINGTON – Bottles of Tylenol sold in the U.S. will soon bear red warnings alerting users to the potentially fatal risks of taking too much of the popular pain reliever. The unusual step, ...
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
New criteria increase number of men with depression
A new study finds that depression may be far more common in men than previously estimated.
Women traditionally have been diagnosed with depression about twice as often as men, wit...
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
Health Brief
Mercy wins honor for medical records
HIMSS Analytics has awarded Mercy Regional Medical Center a Stage 7 award for its electronic medical records system. Stage 7, the highest rank...
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
Hickenlooper recognizes brain-swelling condition
Durangoan, whose son has hydrocephalus, pressed for Colo. representatives’ support
DATE: Sep 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
Bill Walton finds way ‘back’ to the game
Basketball big man gives credit to his less-invasive surgery on troubled spine
DATE: Aug 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News
Head blows tied to mental problems
Study examines former football players
DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
In Colorado, Lyme disease is not a scourge
My family enjoyed many summers in north-central New Hampshire.
The evening routine included body inspections on us kids for the presence of ticks. The family dog was scrutinized ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch
Health Brief
Annual health summit to be held Sept. 20
The Citizens Health Advisory Council will host the fourth annual Health Summit of La Plata County on Sept. 20 at DoubleTree Hotel, 501 Cam...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Health
