Health

Health Briefs

Mercy Regional Medical Center invites the community to join fellowship-trained spine surgeons Douglas Orndorff and Jim Youssef and guest Bill…

August 31, 2014

La Plata Health Watch

Sleep crucial to teenagers as demands pileup

Adolescence is a mishmash of physical, social and intellectual changes designed to convert a child into an adult. With many…

August 31, 2014

Health

Our bacteria travel everywhere with us

Researchers attempting to understand microbiome, how it affects our health

August 31, 2014

Health

Feeling it in your bones

Osteoporosis can be the silent, stealthy killer inside you

August 31, 2014

Health

How do you foil a virus mutating hundreds of times?

Scientists genetically mapping Ebola, strains

August 31, 2014

Health

Food or foe? Illness lurks in every kitchen

Pathogens can infiltrate our guts, then wreak havoc on our bodies

August 23, 2014

Health

Health Briefs

Flucke Southwest Memorial Hospital of Cortez on Sept. 1 will implement a new health information technology system designed by Cerner…

August 23, 2014

Health

Disabilities in kids rise; not physical problems

Researchers investigated over 10-year trend in study

August 23, 2014

Health

What makes math brains?

ol’ noggin needs experience to retain those arithmetic solutions

August 23, 2014

Health

This one-two punch could help eradicate polio

Shots, drops – which to use has been controversial

August 23, 2014

Health

Health Brief

San Juan Basin Health Department recognizes August as National Immunization Awareness Month. Childhood vaccines protect against serious and potentially life-threatening…

August 17, 2014

Health

Williams’ death spurs hotline calls

national crisis center saw jump to 1.4M Facebook visitors from its usual 91,000

August 17, 2014

La Plata Health Watch

You can prevent acid reflux by watching diet

For many of us, this all-too-common second greeting is a most unwelcome situation. It turns out much of the underlying…

August 17, 2014

Health

Pass on the salt? Study says you don’t need to

Research method is under fire by scientists

August 17, 2014

Health

Meat-eaters’ worst nightmare

Star tick spreads across the nation

August 17, 2014

Health

Easy on the eyes

Optometrists caution against elongated computer, screen use

August 9, 2014

Health

Health Briefs

The Upper Pine River Fire Protection District will offer CPR and first aid classes at the Pine River Library, 395…

August 9, 2014

Green Medicine

Understanding hormones is key to help women feel happy, healthy

Body, mind and spirit are all influenced by the effects of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone on our bodies. When it…

August 9, 2014

Health

How does Ebola virus spread – and can it be stopped?

experts give you answers

August 9, 2014

Health

Mothers provide their children ‘perfect baby food’

is National Breastfeeding Month

August 9, 2014

Coroner's Report

Our definition of death is subject to change

A middle-aged woman lay in the intensive-care unit surrounded by machinery that recorded her heartbeat, measured her blood pressure and…

August 9, 2014

Health

Gene map unravels mental illness

system connected to schizophrenia

August 3, 2014

Health

Weather killed thousands in 5-year period

Cold, hypothermia took largest percentage

August 3, 2014

La Plata Health Watch

Don’t get burned: Simple measures can save your skin

It is skin cancer, with 5 million Americans treated each year. Treatment for skin cancer accounts for $8.1 billion in…

August 3, 2014