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Bill Walton, doctors to discuss back, leg pain Mercy Regional Medical Center invites the community to join fellowship-trained spine surgeons Douglas Orndorff and Jim Youssef and g...

Sleep crucial to teenagers as demands pileup

How many adults remember what it was like to be a teenager? It's a bit of a roller-coaster ride. Adolescence is a mishmash of physical, social and intellectual changes designed t...

Our bacteria travel everywhere with us

Researchers attempting to understand microbiome, how it affects our health

Feeling it in your bones

Osteoporosis can be the silent, stealthy killer inside you

How do you foil a virus mutating hundreds of times?

Scientists genetically mapping Ebola, strains

Disabilities in kids rise; not physical problems

Researchers investigated over 10-year trend in study

Food or foe? Illness lurks in every kitchen

Pathogens can infiltrate our guts, then wreak havoc on our bodies

What makes math brains?

The ol’ noggin needs experience to retain those arithmetic solutions

This one-two punch could help eradicate polio

Shots, drops – which to use has been controversial

Health Briefs

Cortez hospital offers new information system Southwest Memorial Hospital of Cortez on Sept. 1 will implement a new health information technology system designed by Cerner Corpora...

Health Brief

Childhood vaccines recommended San Juan Basin Health Department recognizes August as National Immunization Awareness Month. Childhood vaccines protect against serious a...

Williams’ death spurs hotline calls

One national crisis center saw jump to 1.4M Facebook visitors from its usual 91,000