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Computer modeling improves replacement of ailing shoulders

Technology expected to increase procedures to implant new joints

DATE: Aug 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts

TRENTON, N.J. – Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis. ...

DATE: Aug 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Doctors suspect vaping behind dozens of lung illnesses in U.S.

NEW YORK – As many as 50 people in at least six states have come down with breathing illnesses that may be linked to e-cigarettes or other vaping products. No deaths have been rep...

DATE: Aug 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. makes new push for graphic warning labels on cigarettes

WASHINGTON – U.S. health officials are making a new attempt at adding graphic images to cigarette packets to discourage Americans from lighting up. If successful, it would be the first chang...

DATE: Aug 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to-treat patients

TRENTON, N.J. – U.S. regulators Wednesday approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, a worsening problem in many poor countries...

DATE: Aug 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Early study results suggest 2 Ebola treatments saving lives

WASHINGTON – Two of four experimental Ebola drugs being tested in Congo seem to be saving lives, international health authorities announced Monday. The preliminary findings prompt...

DATE: Aug 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

To boost workforce, medical schools try to sell rural life

BRISTOL, Va. – On a field trip to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Ashish Bibireddy put on headphones and scrolled through a jukebox of music from an influential 1927 recording sessio...

DATE: Aug 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Three Springs MRI to provide higher quality scans with new technology

Better images allow for better diagnoses

DATE: Aug 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Impossible Whopper not fooling Durango taste-testers

Plant-based patty touts flavor of real meat

DATE: Aug 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths

NEW YORK – Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three de...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Is pot safe when pregnant?

Study seeks answer, draws critics

DATE: Aug 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Cities again see more overdose deaths than country towns

NEW YORK – U.S. drug overdose deaths had been most common in Appalachia and other rural areas in recent years, but they are back to being more concentrated in big cities, according to a gove...

DATE: Aug 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health