Medicine - The Durango Herald

Community Health Action Coalition launches end-of-life education campaign

Parents often talk with their teens about alcohol, drugs and safe sex, but not many ask their children to think about end-of-life health care. But when Becky Scalf’s children turn...

DATE: May 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Study: Major hospital has drug mishaps in half of all surgeries

Nearly half of all surgeries at one of the nation’s top hospitals involve some kind of medication error or unintended drug side effect, a rate likely to be found at other U.S. hospitals, res...

DATE: Oct 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hemp corridor sprouts on U.S. 160

Farmer, biochemist, manufacturer join

DATE: Jun 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Donations help mend a puppy’s heart

The community helped save a puppy named Sugar this week, after the La Plata County Humane Society and Lisa Parker’s Puppies put out the call. Dog lovers donated about $4,650 for S...

DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Thank your local emergency medical practitioner

In its 40th year, National Emergency Services Week, May 18 through May 24, honors hundreds of thousands of emergency medical service practitioners who provide the first response and often li...

DATE: May 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News