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Malaria drugs’ promise for coronavirus spurs hope, shortages
Scientists warn about raising false hopes
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COVID-19 lung patterns show few clues for treating pneumonia
This undated image provided by Mount Sinai Hospital in March 2020 shows a CT scan from a 65-year-old man in China with COVID-19. Pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus can…
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Loss of smell, taste, might signal pandemic virus infection
Alaska state Rep. David Eastman sits at his desk on the House floor in Juneau, Alaska, Monday, March 23, 2020. Eastman, a Wasilla Republican, has been critical of the Legislature’s…
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Mental health professionals share insight into coping with COVID-19
‘It’s OK not to be OK’
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Durango mental health professionals share insight into coping with COVID-19
‘It’s OK not to be OK’
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Cancer, heart surgeries delayed as coronavirus alters care
A surgeon directs a special camera to be able to view his patient’s cancer tumor on monitors while performing surgery at a hospital in Philadelphia. As the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads,…
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Sick staff fueled outbreak in Seattle-area care centers
A member of a cleaning crew wheels a cart toward a vehicle at the Life Care Center, where at least 30 coronavirus deaths have been linked to the facility, Wednesday,…
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Hospitals fear shortage of ventilators for virus patients
Lovely R. Suanino, a respiratory therapist at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J., demonstrates setting up a ventilator in the intensive care unit of the hospital. U.S. hospitals…
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AP Exclusive: Coronavirus vaccine test opens with 1st doses
A pharmacist gives Jennifer Haller, left, the first shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, Monday,…
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U.S. hospitals brace for ‘tremendous strain’ from new virus
Steve Moody, director of nursing at Central Maine Medical Center, mops the floor of a tent outside the emergency entrance to the hospital where patients are tested for of the…
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Southwest Ability Summit focuses on building an inclusive community
provides resources to people with disabilities
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Tests show new virus lives on some surfaces for up to 3 days
An employee disinfects the glass cover of a butcher counter to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in a food store in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. For…
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Flu and coronavirus: Similar symptoms, different fears
A 73-year-old man places a cold compress on his forehead while battling the flu at a hospital in Georgia. Doctors can test for the flu and get results within a…
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Virus and elderly: Avoid crowds, cruises, long plane trips
Playwright Vicki Quade poses for a portrait at the North & Clybourn Streets “L” station Monday, March 9, 2020, in Chicago. Older adults, those 60 and up like Quade should…
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Science Says: How risky is that virus? Your mind may mislead
She took it. “I’m a business person,” Alexander, 65, explained. “But if somebody else does it next time, I might try to be careful because of the coronavirus.” As the…
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China’s virus slowdown offers hope for global containment
A masked man looks out near a national flag outside a traditional medicine hospital in Beijing on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Mushrooming outbreaks in the Mideast, Europe and South Korea…
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Nancy versus the cell tower
Durango woman joins effort to reduce wireless technology emissions
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Q&A: Emerging picture of virus shows world at critical stage
Francisco Seco/Associated Press<br><br>Tourits sit in a barely empty restaurant terrace at the St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Authorities in Italy decided to re-open schools and…
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After obesity surgery, more patients returning for another
This combination of photos provided by Anita Saah shows her on the morning before her sleeve gastrectomy surgery in July 2018 at the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Md.,…
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New U.S. coronavirus case may be 1st from unknown origin
President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence, left, and members of the president’s coronavirus task force speaks during a news conference at the Brady press briefing room of the…
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80 is not the new 70: Age may bias heart care, study finds
A surgeon and assistants perform open heart bypass surgery on a patient at a hospital in Mesa, Ariz.Associated Press file A U.S. study out Feb. 19 finds that heart attack…
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Durango fertility doctor confronts his own death, head-on
his battle against cancer, Joseph Gambone holds a celebration of life
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In rough U.S. flu season for kids, vaccine working OK so far
A patient receiving a flu vaccination in Mesquite, Texas. On Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the vaccine has been more than 50%…
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U.S. medical schools boost LGBTQ students, doctor training
Harvard Medical School student Aliya Feroe, of Minneapolis, Minn., poses for a photograph on the school’s campus, in Boston. Feroe recalls a flustered OB-GYN who referred her to another physician…
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Yale study puts Americans’ perspectives on food, environment to the test
production a significant contributor to rise in greenhouse gases across globe
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Ignacio School District buys detectors to deter vaping
technology identifies vaping, THC, gunshots
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Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits US kids
Wendy Kerley gives Ethan Getman, 15, a shot of the flu vaccine at the Cordova Shot Nurse clinic in Memphis, Tenn. A second wave of flu is hitting the U.S.,…
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China’s daily death toll from virus tops 100 for first time
A worker wearing protective suit waits near an entrance at the Cheung Hong Estate, a public housing estate during evacuation of residents in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. The…
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FDA crackdown on vaping flavors has blind spot: disposables
A woman holds a Puff Bar flavored disposable vape device in New York. On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, the U.S. government began enforcing restrictions on flavored electronic cigarettes aimed at curbing…