Surprised by her own cancer diagnosis, Durangoan urges women to schedule screenings
Debbie Goodman put off mammograms, then she learned the bad news
DATE: Nov 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
Mercy Regional Medical Center awarded grant for suicide prevention
Mercy Regional Medical Center has received a $100,000 grant from the Cardinal Health Foundation and will join the foundation’s Zero Suicide Collaborative.
The project will move Me...
DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
More U.S. patients to have easy, free access to doctor’s notes
More U.S. patients will soon have free, electronic access to the notes their doctors write about them under a new federal requirement for transparency.
Many health systems are ope...
DATE: Nov 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
2nd study testing a COVID-19 antibody drug has a setback
For the second time, a study testing an experimental antibody drug for COVID-19 has been paused to investigate a possible safety issue in hospitalized patients.
Regeneron Pharmace...
DATE: Oct 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
U.S. suicide rate fell last year after decade of steady rise
NEW YORK – The U.S. suicide rate fell slightly last year, the first annual decline in more than a decade, according to new government data.
It’s a small decrease and the data is p...
DATE: Oct 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
New guidelines address rise in opioid use during pregnancy
Opioid use in pregnancy has prompted new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, aimed at improving care for women and newborns affected by their mothers’ drug use.
The ...
DATE: Oct 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
AstraZeneca, J&J resuming U.S. tests of COVID-19 vaccines
Two drugmakers announced Friday the resumption of U.S. testing of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates.
Testing of AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate had been halted since early Septemb...
DATE: Oct 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Access expands to nasal spray that reverses opioid overdoses
Mercy provides take-home Naloxone kits to those at high risk
DATE: Oct 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Overdose deaths in U.S. appear to be rising
Matthew Davidson was beating his heroin addiction. The 31-year-old was attending group recovery meetings. He had a restaurant job he liked. He was a doting uncle to a baby nephew.
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DATE: Oct 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
CDC redefines COVID-19 close contact, adds brief encounters
NEW YORK – U.S. health officials Wednesday redefined what counts as close contact with someone with COVID-19 to include briefer but repeated encounters.
For months, the Centers fo...
DATE: Oct 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
UN: Europe’s pandemic restrictions are absolutely necessary
LONDON – The head of the World Health Organization’s Europe office said the exponential surge of coronavirus cases across the continent has warranted the restrictive measures being taken, ca...
DATE: Oct 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Centura Health-Mercy welcomes primary care physician Dr. Micah Helton
Centura Health-Mercy Regional Medical Center welcomes primary care physician Micah Helton, M.D., to Mercy Family Medicine-Horse Gulch and Mercy Internal Medicine, 810 E. Third St., Suite 201...
DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
