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Dry needling takes off as a way to ease chronic pain

Acupuncturists raise concern about training required

DATE: Feb 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

An athlete’s age may be less important to performance than persistent practice

For three decades, Joseph Baker has been swimming, cycling and running in triathlons some would call punishing. Baker, 47, is also a professor of exercise sciences. As he competed...

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Games, crafts, other activities may safeguard aging brain

CHICAGO — Even in your 70s and beyond, simple activities including web-surfing, playing bridge and socializing can stave off mental decline, new research says. Benefits were great...

DATE: Feb 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Six ways to keep your kids healthy during winter

Norovirus seems to be circling like a vulture this winter, and snuffly kids are popping up on every park bench. On a local parenting e-mail group, it was reported that two-thirds of the kids...

DATE: Feb 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

The treadmill’s weird history

Its evolution is an exercise in how work, leisure and technology changed in the past 200 years

DATE: Feb 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Women invited to join heart-health program

Colorado State University Extension in La Plata County is working with Tufts University to help women improve their heart health through Strong Women, Healthy Hearts. Women older...

DATE: Feb 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Health department changes name to San Juan Basin Public Health

San Juan Basin Health has changed its name to “San Juan Basin Public Health,” effective immediately. The name change better reflects the organization’s public health mission: to p...

DATE: Feb 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Hospice of Mercy to offer 8-week grief support group

Hospice of Mercy is offering an eight-week grief support group for people who have experienced the death of a loved one. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the pro...

DATE: Feb 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Rare neurological disorder prevents people from knowing where they are

I knew I was safe. I was mere blocks from where I’d started my walk with Otis, the beagle I was dog-sitting. That knowledge didn’t matter, though; fear and adrenaline pulsed through my veins...

DATE: Jan 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Pumping iron gives the mind a lift

To free the mind, first free the body through exercise

DATE: Jan 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Cortez Parks and Recreation considers smoke-free zones

Survey to ask about tobacco use in parks

DATE: Jan 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

1 in 4 U.S. men have cancer-linked HPV genital infections

CHICAGO – The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several can...

DATE: Jan 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health