Recovery group helps young people establish new lifestyles
Woman starts local chapter to provide more options
DATE: Nov 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Fiber: The first step to preventing diabetes
November is National Diabetes Prevention Month. When we talk about diabetes prevention, we are talking about Type 2 Diabetes. Individuals with Type 1 are born with it. According to the Cente...
DATE: Nov 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition
Q&A on scientist’s bombshell claim of gene-edited babies
Designer babies might be here sooner than anyone reckoned. A Chinese researcher who says he created gene-edited babies crossed what most scientists consider a forbidden line.
It’s...
DATE: Nov 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Meditation helps vets with post-traumatic stress disorder
Meditation worked as well as traditional therapy for military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in a small experiment sponsored by the Department of Defense.
One method...
DATE: Nov 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Psychiatrists coming to Durango, via video
Mercy Family Medicine one of the latest to offer consultations to address shortage
DATE: Nov 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Romaine lettuce warning looms over Thanksgiving dinner
NEW YORK – Avoid all romaine lettuce, but don’t worry about your turkey.
With two food poisoning outbreaks making headlines before Thanksgiving, the messages about what’s safe to ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Breastfeeding workshop for parents set for Dec. 6
A breastfeeding workshop for expectant parents will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at Kids Rock, 563 Main Ave.
Joy Frazer, international board certified lactation consultant a...
DATE: Nov 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Why a salmonella outbreak shouldn’t ruin your Thanksgiving
NEW YORK – There’s no reason to skip Thanksgiving dinner because of a salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey.
That’s according to health officials who’ve been monitoring the yea...
DATE: Nov 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Baby aspirin linked to reduced ovarian cancer, study finds
A study published last month offers some new hope for helping prevent ovarian cancer - in the form of a baby aspirin - and may add to the growing body of evidence that inflammation plays a r...
DATE: Nov 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Jennie-O recalling ground turkey in salmonella outbreak
NEW YORK – Jennie-O Turkey recalled ground turkey in a salmonella outbreak, and regulators say additional products from other companies could be named as their investigation continues. ...
DATE: Nov 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
U.S. officials report a record number of tick diseases
NEW YORK – U.S. health officials say a record number of tick-borne diseases were reported last year.
The 2017 tally of more than 59,000 cases is a 22 percent increase from the pre...
DATE: Nov 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Cross talk: Federal agencies clash on cellphone cancer risk
WASHINGTON – Two U.S. government agencies are giving conflicting interpretations of a safety study on cellphone radiation: One says it causes cancer in rats. The other says there’s no reason...
DATE: Nov 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
