Health - The Durango Herald

Older than 60? Don’t just sit there!

Extended inactivity may make just about everything worse

DATE: Mar 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Can your own loneliness kill you?

Isolation may increase your risk for early death – so, have friends :)

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Hey, gentlemen: you’re more likely to lose color vision

Serving in the role of medical examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration was a satisfying phase of my medical career. After a decade or more of doing exams for third-class...

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Odd flu season hits young adults hardest

Nationally, illness appears to be on decline with better vaccine

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Health Briefs

Prediabetes class available at Mercy Mercy Regional Medical Center will offer free education to people with prediabetes from 9 to 11 a.m. March 6 in Suite 140 of the medical offic...

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

No more baby talk for your babies

You should have conversations with them instead

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

A new way to predict depression

Saliva analysis can forecast depression in boys

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Here’s a new way of looking at the music we play

During improvisation, language centers of our brains are active

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Could your baby’s gender affect your breast milk?

New research suggests that may be the case

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

TV drama helps German doctor

LONDON – If you’re unlucky enough to be stricken with a rare medical condition, you’d better hope your doctor watches the right television show. That was the lesson for one German...

DATE: Feb 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Marijuana can have terrible side effects

When you’re vomiting incessantly, only anti-psychotics will help

DATE: Feb 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

If that throbbing is a migraine, you’re not alone

There are few benign acute health problems more disabling than a migraine. Yet, this common condition affects tens of millions of children and adults each year in the United States, resultin...

DATE: Feb 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch