Colorado launching suicide prevention efforts
Mental health care, school-based programs central to plan
DATE: Oct 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Psychotherapist starts suicide loss grief group in Bayfield
Residents expressed need for therapeutic resources
DATE: Oct 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Southwest Retina opens research center to conduct clinical trials
Patients from across Four Corners will test new medications, devices
DATE: Oct 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
New Durango sports medicine practice opens
Durango Sports Medicine, PLLC, is open and accepting new patients.
Dr. Timothy Durkin, DO, is an experienced board-certified physician in both sports and emergency medicine. Durk...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Doctor to give presentation about depression at St. Columba Parish
Dr. Matthew Clark will give a presentation about depression at 12:45 p.m. Oct. 28 in the St. Columba Parish Center, 1800 East Second Ave.
Clark will review the prevalence, sympto...
DATE: Oct 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
I quit drinking a year ago. Here’s what happened.
I sipped my last chilled vodka with lime last September. There wasn’t a lot of pomp when I bid farewell to cocktails. I didn’t want to broadcast my decision because I’d unsuccessfully tried ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Health department to discuss insurance options
San Juan Basin Public Health will provide presentations about health insurance from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, and at 6 p.m. Wednesday and Oct....
DATE: Oct 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Free health care workshop to be held Friday
A free workshop to review changes to the Affordable Care Act and what is available on the health care market will occur from 11 a.m. to noon Friday in Program Room 1 of the Durango Public Li...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Mindfulness Foundations course starts Oct. 22
The Mindful Life Program will offer a Mindfulness Foundations Course from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Mondays from Oct. 22 to Dec. 10 at Pathways Physical Therapy, 2243 Main Ave., Suite 1B.
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DATE: Oct 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Food allergy sufferers often served a side of skepticism alongside their struggle
Patricia Hopp rose from her seat and took a deep breath. It was the first or second day of middle school, and Trece, as her family and friends call her, had something to say. She’d need her ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food
Obesity surgery may lower heart attack danger in diabetics
SEATTLE – Obesity surgery may dramatically lower the danger of heart attacks and strokes in patients with diabetes, new research suggests, reinforcing evidence that benefits extend beyond we...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Mysterious paralyzing illness found among kids in 22 states
NEW YORK – U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and said it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern.
At le...
DATE: Oct 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
