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Durango business offers escape from sensory overload

‘Zero-gravity’ flotation tanks provide therapy, reported health benefits

DATE: Jul 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Upper Pine fire talks mental health for national video

Public service announcement raises awareness of wellness resources

DATE: Jul 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

San Juan Basin Public Health to host virtual resource fair

San Juan Basin Public Health will host a virtual resource fair from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, July 23,July 23 on Zoom. The fair will allow client-based services to introduce their organizati...

DATE: Jul 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

FDA adds warning about rare reaction to J&J COVID-19 vaccine

WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators on Monday added a new warning to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine about links to a rare and potentially dangerous neurological reaction, but said it’s not en...

DATE: Jul 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Public health officials confirm plague death; coroner identifies girl who died

Kinley Mitchell, 10, attended Sunnyside Elementary School and raised hogs in 4-H

DATE: Jul 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Masks required at San Juan Regional Medical Center

New Mexico removed remaining pandemic restrictions and officially opened up as of Thursday July 1. To protect vulnerable patient populations and each other from COVID-19, San Juan Regional ...

DATE: Jul 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Fentanyl use on the rise in Farmington

Hospital begins tracking drug specifically to monitor incidents

DATE: Jun 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Food allergies complicate hungry Americans' search for meals

SACRAMENTO, California – When Emily Brown, a Kansas City mother, couldn’t find foods that her 2-year-old with multiple food allergies could eat at a local food pantry, she mustered up the co...

DATE: Jun 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

Experts see strides on AIDS, but COVID-19 halted progress

NEW YORK– Some researchers believe COVID-19 has derailed the fight against HIV, siphoning away health workers and other resources and setting back a U.S. campaign to decimate the AIDS epidem...

DATE: Jun 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Colorado vaccine bus rolls into Bayfield

Mobile program distributes thousands of doses statewide

DATE: May 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

U.S. officials: Anxiety drove vaccine reactions in 5 states

NEW YORK – It was anxiety – and not a problem with the shots – that caused fainting, dizziness and other short-term reactions in dozens of people at coronavirus vaccine clinics in five state...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Pfizer, BioNTech seek EU’s OK to use COVID vaccine on kids

LONDON – Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have submitted a request to the European drug regulator for the approval of their coronavirus vaccine to be extended to include children 12 to 15 years old,...

DATE: Apr 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health