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Prediabetes education available Mercy Regional Medical Center will offer free education to people with prediabetes from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday in Suite 140 of the medical office buil...

DATE: Jan 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health

Keys to elusive cures in genes

Mutations are probable answers to various diseases

DATE: Jan 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health

Can arts help Alzheimer’s patients cope?

Studies examine soothing, functional benefits for elderly, cognitively disabled

DATE: Jan 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health

Embrace the winter: Boost body, mind

The benefits of braving the cold are many

DATE: Jan 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health

Teens trending toward e-cigarettes, study says

WASHINGTON – More teens are trying out e-cigarettes than the real thing, according to the government’s annual drug-use survey. Researchers were surprised at how many eighth-, 10th...

DATE: Jan 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health

Cancer tied to biological ‘bad luck’

Environment, genes may play lesser role

DATE: Jan 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Health

Stress may dilute reward

Greater effort doesn’t mean more gratification

DATE: Dec 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

No one says night shifts are easy

Occasionally, I have described my career in emergency medicine as enduring 30-plus years of sleep depravation. Actually, it’s longer than that. In college, I worked several summe...

DATE: Dec 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Switch to farming made our skeletons fragile

Life on the farm might sound awfully active. But before the invention of agriculture, humans were hunting and gathering every morsel of food they ate – which made for an even more active lif...

DATE: Dec 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health