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What we know (and don’t) about Juul, teen vaping and illness

NEW YORK – An outbreak of vaping illnesses. A surge in teens using electronic cigarettes. They’re often spoken of in the same urgent breath, but it’s not clear how – or even if – they are co...

Colorado’s Behavioral Health Task Force to hold public comment forum

Colorado’s Behavioral Health Task Force will host a public comment session from 2 to 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Lightner Room at La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Community m...

Mercy Regional Medical Center announces new providers

Mercy Regional Medical Center announces the addition of fellowship-trained, board-certified orthopedic surgeon Bret Smith to Mercy Orthopedic Associates’ Foot & Ankle Center and fellowship-t...

2nd Ebola vaccine to be used in Congo, as UN efforts slammed

LONDON – The World Health Organization on Monday announced Congo will start using a second experimental Ebola vaccine, as efforts to stop the deadly outbreak are stalled and Doctors Without ...

As Colorado’s meth crisis grows, doctors try medication to treat addiction

Melinda McDowell had used drugs since she was a teenager. But she didn’t try methamphetamine until one fateful night in 2017 after her mother died suddenly of a stroke. She went over to a ne...

Free presentation at library to address keto diet

La Plata Health Coach Christine Smith will give a free presentation, “Curious About Keto? Why Eating More Fat Can Be The Key to Good Health,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Durango Public...

Pediatric Associates of Durango to host open house

Pediatric Associates of Durango will host an open house from noon to 1:30 p.m. and from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 1199 Main Ave., Suite 205. Dr. Pakhi Chaudhuri and Nurse...

Will combo pill catch on in U.S. to prevent heart attacks?

A cheap, daily pill that combines four drugs has been tested for the first time in the United States to see if it works as well among low-income Americans as it has in other countries to tre...

Many U.S. women say 1st sexual experience was forced in teens

CHICAGO – The first sexual experience for 1 in 16 U.S. women was forced or coerced intercourse in their early teens, encounters that for some may have had lasting health repercussions, a stu...

CBD vapes spiked with dangerous drugs for sale across U.S.

Jay Jenkins says he hesitated when a buddy suggested they vape CBD. “It’ll relax you,” the friend assured. The vapor that Jenkins inhaled didn’t relax him. After two pu...

No new measles cases reported in fading U.S. outbreak

NEW YORK – The nation’s worst measles epidemic in 27 years could be in its final stages as a week went by with no new reported cases. “To get to zero is tremendously encouraging,”...

U.S. officials revise vaping illness count to 380 in 36 states

NEW YORK – The U.S. government has refined how it is measuring an outbreak of breathing illnesses in people who vape, now counting only cases that are most closely linked to electronic cigar...
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