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Spring cleaning your nutrition

We all get stuck in food ruts when we eat the same thing day after day, leaving us feeling bored and unmotivated with our meal plan. Even though we’re bored, sometimes it’s easie...

DATE: Mar 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Apple Watch may spot heart problem but more research needed

WASHINGTON – A huge study suggests the Apple Watch can detect a worrisome irregular heartbeat at least sometimes – but experts say more work is needed to tell if using wearable technology to...

DATE: Mar 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Academy opens to meet workforce need for caregivers

Training prepares students for physical tasks

DATE: Mar 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Five signs you need to change what you’re eating

If you are suffering from undesirable symptoms, it may be a sign that the food you are eating needs tweaking. You experience symptoms when your body is struggling to correct a pro...

DATE: Mar 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

New sensors monitor sick babies without wires blocking hugs

WASHINGTON – Peek into any U.S. hospital’s baby ICU, and you’ll see sick and premature newborns covered in wired monitors that tear at fragile skin and make it hard for parents to cuddle the...

DATE: Mar 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Using 1 germ to fight another when today’s antibiotics fail

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa’s lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment – deliberately inhaling a ...

DATE: Mar 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

How ‘completely avoidable’ measles cases continue to climb

WASHINGTON – The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017 – and part of the rising threat is misinformation that makes some parents balk a...

DATE: Mar 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Durango gym owner distills years of fitness experience into “Wellness Toolbox”

Don Roberts’ fitness and nutrition book a guide to making healthier choices

DATE: Feb 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Local volunteers work to improve lives of Guatemalans

More than 230 residents have traveled on medical missions

DATE: Feb 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wrist surgery puts retired coach back in play

Bob Hofman can shoot basketball for first time in decades

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Researchers find clues that depression may speed brain aging

WASHINGTON – Memory and thinking skills naturally slow with age but now scientists are peeking inside living brains to tell if depression might worsen that decline – and finding some worriso...

DATE: Feb 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health

Five immunity boosters to add to your diet

Sometimes in the winter it feels like coughing, scratchy throats and runny noses are just a part of daily life. I don’t give financial advice, but my goal is to share how the foods you eat ...

DATE: Feb 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition