Health - The Durango Herald

Amid shortage, health education centers work to recruit rural doctors

Colorado could be short 800 primary care physicians by 2020

DATE: Mar 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Are you storing your pills in the right place? A dose of reality

Just about every household has pills. Where’s the best place to keep them? It’s not the medicine cabinet – or your kitchen counter. About 82 percent of American adults take at lea...

DATE: Mar 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

First aid: Not just for scraped knees

Class teaches how to recognize mental health disorders, support people in crisis

DATE: Mar 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Study finds obesity robs the tongue of taste buds in mice

WASHINGTON – Packing on pounds seems to dull people’s sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds. ...

DATE: Mar 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Suicide-prevention speaker will appear tonight via livestream

Kevin Hines was scheduled to make an appearance at Fort Lewis College

DATE: Mar 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Flu, crowded shelters create perfect storm for homeless

The flu descended on Connie Gabaldon like a fog, she recalled, clouding her mind and compromising her judgment. It progressed to chest and back pain, the aches perhaps made worse by a fall t...

DATE: Mar 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Do my ‘social prescriptions’ help patients?

About a decade ago, a colleague told me about a cool new initiative, something called “Exercise Is Medicine.” The idea made total sense to me: Rather than just tell my patients about exercis...

DATE: Mar 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Abortion is safe but barriers reduce quality of care, report says

WASHINGTON – Abortions in the U.S. are very safe but getting one without facing delays and false medical information depends on where women live, says a broad examination of the nation’s abo...

DATE: Mar 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Cholesterol drug lowers risk of death, heart attack, study says

ORLANDO, Fla. – A newer cholesterol drug, used with older statin medicines, modestly lowered heart risks and deaths in a big study of heart attack survivors that might persuade insurers to c...

DATE: Mar 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Durango student battling cancer will meet NBA hero Stephen Curry

Make-A-Wish Foundation sending Durango family to California

DATE: Mar 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Homer can help you’: War veterans use ancient epics to cope

BURLINGTON, Vt. – The trials of Odysseus are really not that different from the struggles of those learning to readjust after wars of today, modern veterans are finding. A small g...

DATE: Mar 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health

Doctors find air pocket where part of man’s brain should be

The 84-year-old man arrived in the emergency room with complaints that weren’t uncommon for a patient his age. He had reported feeling unsteady over the past several months, culmi...

DATE: Mar 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health