Henry Beverly, 73, battles the flu while tended to by nurse Kathleen Burks in February 2018 at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, Ga. As of January 2019, the current…
Data will inform prevention coalition goals in La Plata County
According to a report released on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018, annual spending by the U.S. health industry on ads and promotions has reached $30 billion. That includes advertisements for prescription…
You’re familiar with the common resolutions for health, but how can you sustain your long-term momentum so you can live a bigger, better life? Knowing what to do to achieve…
Chemotherapy drugs are administered to a patient at a hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C. The U.S. cancer death rate has been falling between 1991 and 2016, and so far there’s…
If you’re planning to try to lose weight in 2019, you’re sure to find a fierce debate online and among friends and family about how best to do it. It…
Laurel Foster holds her phone in San Francisco. Foster is among teens involved in Stanford University research testing whether smartphones can be used to help detect depression and potential self-harm.Haven…
Doctors appear at a news conference at University of Chicago Hospital Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Chicago. University of Chicago Medicine doctors announced Friday that they successfully completed the triple…
An embryologist adjusts a microplate containing embryos that were injected with gene-editing components in a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province. Most Americans say it would be OK…
Popular doctor rehired; board of directors gets new members
Nancy Buchholz holds her husband Jeff’s picture, who died six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer this spring. Nancy got Bind coverage through her employer, Dove Healthcare and the only…
The pain associated with these conditions can be so excruciating it can be mistaken for a heart attack. Taking over-the-counter medications can help in the short term, but they are…
A new government report released on Thursday shows that while adult waistlines have been expanding, the average height of U.S. men actually fell slightly over the past decade. The height…
Specialist at Mercy offers new treatment for sleep apnea
A Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone lies on a counter as a health educator gives instructions on how to administer it in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On…
Government requires two-year action plan
Child abuse increases the day after school report cards are released – but only when kids get their grades on a Friday, a Florida stud suggests.Associated Press file The curious…
Jessica Vought draws from personal tragedy to warn others about dangers of drunken driving
Senior Hazel Ostrowski, center, smiles as she looks up during her first period, AP statistics class at Franklin High School Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in Seattle. High school students are…
Dr. Michael Hoffer, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in Miami. Hoffer and a group of doctors presented…
Despite us all knowing better, the average American eats a whopping 168 pounds of sugar per year. That’s more than 33 five-pound bags! Yup, the struggle is real, people. Monitoring…
For some people with dementia, their behavior can switch from normal to highly erratic come nightfall
An electron microscope image shows numerous, spheroid-shaped Enterovirus-D68 (EV-D68) virions. Doctors have suspected a mysterious paralyzing illness, acute flaccid myelitis, might be tied to the virus. This year has seen…
Woman starts local chapter to provide more options
The easiest “first step” to improve pre-diabetes and diabetes with nutrition is to focus on increasing your fiber intake. There are two types of fiber – soluble and insoluble –…
Zhou Xiaoqin, left, loads Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA molecules into a fine glass pipette as Qin Jinzhou watches at a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province. Chinese…
A U.S soldier looks through the scope of his weapon during a night patrol in Mandozai, in Khost province, Afghanistan, seen through night vision equipment. About 400,000 veterans had a…
Mercy Family Medicine one of the latest to offer consultations to address shortage
Romaine lettuce sits on the shelves as a shopper walks through the produce area of an Albertsons market Tuesday in Simi Valley, Calif. Health officials in the U.S. and Canada…
To kill the possibility of salmonella, cook turkeys to an internal temperature of at least 165 degrees.Associated Press file That’s according to health officials who’ve been monitoring the year-old outbreak.…
