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Crisis counseling adapts to era of text messaging

The conversation began abruptly, with the anonymous teenager getting straight to the point: She had just told her family she was really a boy trapped in a female body. “Now my family hates m...

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Child traffic deaths drop

43 percent decrease may be attributed to state laws

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Gene tests, healthy kids and ethical doubt

Her first thought after she heard the news was that she would never have children. Amanda Baxley’s doctor had just told her she had the gene for Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, or GS...

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Health Briefs

Lynn Westberg receives health award The Citizens Health Advisory Council awarded the second annual Health Hero Award to Lynn Westberg at the nonprofit’s annual celebration Jan. 9....

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Brain shifts your past

Research shows how present experience shapes memories

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

When sports kill, is it an accident or something else?

Richard Nieuwenhuizen, a 41-year-old volunteer linesman officiating at an amateur soccer game in the Netherlands, died in December 2012 after he was allegedly kicked in the head, neck and bo...

DATE: Feb 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Coroner's Report

Health Briefs

Health advisory council hires new director Citizens Health Advisory Council has selected Pattie Adler as its new executive director. Adler began her new position in De...

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Peanut allergies solved?

LONDON – An experimental therapy feeding children with peanut allergies small amounts of peanut flour has helped more than 80 percent of them safely eat a handful of the previously worrisome...

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Male hormone may hurt health

A large new study found prescription testosterone raised the risk of heart attacks in older men and in middle-aged men with a history of heart disease, prompting some experts last week to ca...

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Obesity takes hold early in life

Your weight in kindergarten a strong predictor

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health

Fluoridation is a key pillar of public health

Infectious disease control. Proving the dangers of tobacco. Motor-vehicle safety. These advances are a few of what comprise the 10 great public health achievements in the 20th century, accor...

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: La Plata Health Watch

Mixed omega-3 results

A study released last week found with the highest levels of omega-3 fatty acids had better preservation of older women’s brain as they aged than those with the lowest levels, which might mea...

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Health