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What goes into choosing a doctor?

People trust personal recommendations over online feedback

Seeking an unnatural edge

Teens ignore health risks of human growth hormones

Are you paying attention to your thirst?

I’m always amused when I visit the Bar D and the Wranglers sing the lyrics of the old Bob Nolan song “Cool Water.” It never fails as they harmonize about the barren waste and their dry throa...

Health Briefs

United Blood Services to hold blood drives The United Blood Services will host these blood drives: 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 1 in the Bloodmobile at Mercy Regional Medi...

The art of baby-making

Doulas, midwives, childbirth educators can make journey a joyous one

Biological pacemaker on horizon

Experiments on pigs’ hearts have led to battery-less option

For brain boost, go for a walk, talk to a friend

These and other lifestyle changes can lower Alzheimer’s risk

Generic drugs increase in price rapidly

The first sign of trouble came when Dr. Barry Lindenberg, a cardiologist, received a three-page insurance form in January, demanding he get preapproval to prescribe one of the oldest known h...

Illness names inspired by food, drink

You have no doubt heard of the beer belly, the apple-shaped figure and the port-wine birthmark. But if you also know about the strawberry cervix, the watermelon stomach and the bl...

Boot camp for new doctors

Risks of harm eliminated in internship

Health Briefs

Heart Safe La Plata offering CPR program Heart Safe La Plata, using the American Heart Association’s Family and Friends CPR Anytime program, is offering a CPR training for youth ...

Beyond the gore, autopsies hold lessons for us

It should be no surprise that most people, even most doctors in training, think autopsies are gory. The surprise to me is quite a few of my colleagues take offense when somebody says so. ...