Associated Press file Used needles litter the ground at an open air drug market along Conrail train The government figures released Thursday put drug deaths at 63,600, up from about…
Pilot program focuses on kindness, communication, self-worth
Congress fails to renew funding for 9 million kids
Music increasingly is becoming a part of patient care – although it’s still pretty unusual to see roving performers captivating entire wards, like at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital one fall…
Durango Herald file All signs point to yes. It turns out that feeling lonely can do more than make you sad: It can predict the way your body will respond…
Reacting to a story in The Washington Post, health leaders say they are alarmed that officials at the CDC, the nation’s top public health agency, are being told not to…
Nick Lester’s artwork selected for Children’s Hospital holiday card
Doctor develops way to slow down spread of poison
Abuse of painkillers, heroin, fentanyl and other opioids across the country has resulted in tens of thousands of children being taken from their homes and placed in the foster care…
A child welfare worker is on the line telling of three siblings in need of a foster family. Without a pause, Stark offers a familiar line sapped with resignation. “I’ve…
A warning label of strangulation risks from mini blind cords in Washington. According to a new study, children’s injuries and deaths from window blinds have not stalled despite decades of…
A patient has her blood drawn for a liquid biopsy at a hospital in Philadelphia. A new study found that a blood test five years after breast cancer treatment helped…
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file The studies are among the first wave of epidemiological papers based on objective measures of physical activity, rather than self-reported responses. As such, they are considered…
Dr. Tova Koenigsberg at The Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care in New York shows an example of a traditional mammogram scan. U.S. health officials are beginning a huge study…
The state’s teen birth rate and teen abortion rate have dropped 54 percent and 64 percent, respectively, since the devices, known as IUDs, became an affordable option at low-income health…
Jay Konduros, left, shows him and his brother, Bill, at Jay’s home in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. The brothers, who have hemophilia, were involved in a gene therapy study for their…
A flu vaccine injection is administered at the Brownsville Events Center by a pharmacist in Brownsville, Texas. According to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this…
A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills in Sacramento, Calif. Modern birth control pills that are lower in estrogen have fewer side effects than past oral contraceptives. But a…
More than 64,000 died of drug overdoses last year in the U.S., most from opioids
Baylor University Medical Center officials said at a news conference that the mother has returned home and her newborn son is fine. He remains hospitalized for monitoring. It took months…
Desperate, the Wisconsin woman traveled hundreds of miles to seek a delicate operation – replacing under-arm lymph nodes lost in cancer surgery – as a small but growing number of…
A semi-synthetic strain of E. coli bacteria that can churn out novel proteins. Scientists reported on Nov. 29 that they have expanded the genetic code of life and used man-made…
The first baby born as a result of a womb transplant in the United States lies in the neonatal unit at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.Baylor University Medical Center…
Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that supports the immune response and helps to rebuild collagen. Choose citrus, leafy greens, bell peppers, broccoli and berries.Durango Herald file In terms of…
Residents of the Kisenso district receive yellow fever vaccines, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization says that about 11 percent of medicines in developing countries are…
Desperate, the Wisconsin woman traveled hundreds of miles to seek a delicate operation – replacing under-arm lymph nodes lost in cancer surgery – as a small but growing number of…
Dr. Michael Wilkerson discusses a patient’s case with a nurse at a Bradford Health Services addiction treatment facility in Warrior, Alabama. When doctors become addicted to drugs or alcohol, confidential…
A sign points the way to a hospital in Georgia. A study shows that Medicare patients with common illnesses who were treated by their own familiar primary care doctors were…
Brad Sippy, chief executive officer of Tremeau Pharmaceuticals, Inc., stands for a portrait, in Cambridge, Mass. Tremeau Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is a small startup trying to bring the recalled painkiller Vioxx…
du1-i-syn It’s unclear why, but some mental health experts think cyberbullying, substance abuse and economic stress from the recent recession might be contributing. The rising rates “should be of concern…
