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Grants aim to help address behavioral health care shortage

Four Corners social work graduate students receive stipends, training

DATE: Jan 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Enrollment in Colorado health exchange increased this year

Sign-up period ends Jan. 12

DATE: Jan 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

New, long-acting drugs cut frequency of migraine headaches

New, long-acting drugs may hold hope for millions of people who often suffer migraines. Studies of two of these medicines, given as shots every month or so, found they cut the frequency of t...

DATE: Jan 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

A cascade of hearts, a sense of loss: Suicide and social media in the suburbs

On Instagram and Snapchat, sadness melded with rumor and fear. Students reeled first from the suicide of a 16-year-old girl at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. Six days later,...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

What’s the most embarrassing way you’ve ever injured yourself?

Sneezing and sleeping are particularly dangerous activities for back injuries

DATE: Dec 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

In a milestone year, gene therapy finds a place in medicine

After decades of hope and high promise, this was the year scientists really showed they could doctor DNA to successfully treat diseases. Gene therapies to treat cancer and even pull off the ...

DATE: Dec 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

The other big drug problem: Older people taking too many pills

Consider it America’s other prescription drug epidemic. For decades, experts have warned that older Americans are taking too many unnecessary drugs, often prescribed by multiple d...

DATE: Dec 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

How to make a New Year’s resolution that will actually work

Think small, have fun and more

DATE: Dec 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Avoid food additives in the new year

Why should we avoid food chemicals, food additives and food preservatives? Additives such as flavors, colors, sweeteners and hydrogenated oils, emulsifiers and other additives hav...

DATE: Dec 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Putting off dental care because of cost can backﬁre

When I was in my 30s and a dentist told me I needed a few crowns, I decided to skip the expensive devices because of my meager paycheck. Besides, my teeth weren’t hurting. Years l...

DATE: Dec 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Are your cabinets and carpet emitting chemicals?

Indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air

DATE: Dec 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Health

Mercy’s endocrinology clinic to close

The endocrinology clinic at Mercy Regional Medical Center will close in May. Dr. Gihan “Gigi” Dawood resigned her position at Centura Health Physician Group Southwest Endocrinolog...

DATE: Dec 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News