Health - The Durango Herald

Celebrity suicides highlight troubling trend in midlife

CHICAGO – The deaths of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade highlight a troubling trend – rising suicides among middle-aged Americans. Mental health pr...

DATE: Jun 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Smoke may be here for a while. Is it dangerous?

Residents advised to limit activity, close windows to avoid exposure

DATE: Jun 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Licking cancer: U.S. postal stamp helped fund key breast study

CHICAGO – Countless breast cancer patients in the future will be spared millions of dollars of chemotherapy thanks in part to something that millions of Americans did that cost them just pen...

DATE: Jun 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Study finds rare gain for tough-to-treat pancreatic cancer

CHICAGO – Patients with pancreatic cancer that hadn’t spread lived substantially longer on a four-drug combo than on a single standard cancer drug, a rare advance for a tough-to-treat diseas...

DATE: Jun 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. blocks UN health panel from backing taxes on sugar drinks

GENEVA – The Trump administration has torpedoed a plan to recommend higher taxes on sugary drinks, forcing a World Health Organization panel to back off the UN agency’s previous call for suc...

DATE: Jun 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

5 dead, nearly 200 sickened in romaine lettuce outbreak

NEW YORK – Four more deaths have been linked to a national food poisoning outbreak blamed on tainted lettuce, bringing the total to five. Health officials have tied the E. coli o...

DATE: Jun 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Cancer group says colon screening should start at 45, not 50

NEW YORK – New guidelines released Wednesday recommend U.S. adults start colon cancer screening earlier, at age 45 instead of 50. The American Cancer Society’s advice puts it out ...

DATE: Jun 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Rap video, social campaign targets teen pot smokers

LOS ANGELES – New rap videos aimed at Los Angeles-area teens show a common high school scene: Young people hanging out at a party, empty beer cups strewn about and joints being fired up. ...

DATE: May 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Health officials ‘cautiously optimistic’ on Ebola response

GENEVA – The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is “cautiously optimistic” about efforts to curb the spread of Ebola in an urban area in Congo, although the lethal virus is still repo...

DATE: May 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

A surprising bullying battleground: Senior centers

SAN FRANCISCO – The unwanted were turned away from cafeteria tables. Fistfights broke out at karaoke. Dances became breeding grounds for gossip and cruelty. It became clear this p...

DATE: May 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Surgery causes cognitive losses in some seniors

Two years ago, Daniel Cole’s 85-year-old father had heart bypass surgery. He hasn’t been quite the same since. “He forgets things and will ask you the same thing several times,” s...

DATE: May 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health