Public Health - The Durango Herald

Commissioners face tough grant choices

Red Cross’s move of management to Grand Junction raises questions

DATE: Nov 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango wastewater-plant repair deadline extends

City gets six more years to meet new rules

DATE: Oct 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Health experts: Be smart, get flu shot

Flu season has quickly arrived, and for Leslie Blood, a media studies professor at Fort Lewis College, she waisted no time getting inoculated this week. “My husband is getting his...

DATE: Oct 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

FLC health staff receives Ebola response training

Health workers at Fort Lewis College are receiving up-to-date training on how to recognize and respond to someone with Ebola. Mitch Davis, spokesman for Fort Lewis College, said v...

DATE: Oct 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

City calmly prepares for Ebola

Durango medical practitioners plan for remote chance virus appears

DATE: Oct 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Health worker 2nd in U.S. to get Ebola

DALLAS – A “breach of protocol” at the hospital where Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was treated before his death led to the infection of a health-care worker with the deadly virus, and oth...

DATE: Oct 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

AIDS remains a silent killer

Local awareness week highlights disease not much in the spotlight

DATE: Sep 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nut-free campus requested for AHS

Requirement has not yet been sought

DATE: Sep 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

‘Herculean’ task awaits health panel

Commission members vow to avoid political divisions

DATE: Aug 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Some health-insurance rates are down

Analysis shows some plans will see increased fees

DATE: Jul 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Risking the herd

Contagious diseases on the rise in La Plata County, and vaccination naysayers may be compounding the problem

DATE: Jul 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Funding available for new health centers

The federal government is making funding available for new community health centers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could award $100 million in grants for new ce...

DATE: Jul 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News