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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...

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 ...

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...

Access expands to nasal spray that reverses opioid overdoses

Mercy provides take-home Naloxone kits to those at high risk

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Centura aims to increase patient survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest

Centura Health will implement the Resuscitation Quality Improvement program, co-developed by the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical and delivered by RQI Partners, to help the hos...

Reproductive health care shifts to Axis

San Juan Basin Public Health and Axis Health System have announced an upcoming change to Title X services in Archuleta and La Plata counties. Effective Jan. 1, 2021, Axis Health ...

Centura Health offers take-home Naloxone kits

Centura Health is the first health care system to offer the overdose antidote Naloxone directly in the hands of those at high risk of opioid overdose. Statewide, experts predict ...

2nd COVID-19 vaccine trial paused over unexplained illness

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – A late-stage study of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been paused while the company investigates whether a study participant’s “unexplained illness” ...
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