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Help offered navigating state health market
To get health care coverage starting Feb. 1, Coloradans will need to sign up by Jan. 15. Some nonprofit groups are standing by to assist with the process.Courtesy of Luigi…
La Plata Health Watch
Beware, flu is spreading; protect yourself
As of this writing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 15 child deaths attributed to influenza. Many more flu-related adult deaths have occurred, mostly as a result…
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Mercy Regional Medical Center will offer free education to people with prediabetes from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday in Suite 140 of the medical office building at Mercy. People diagnosed…
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Can arts help Alzheimer’s patients cope?
Studies examine soothing, functional benefits for elderly, cognitively disabled
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Teens trending toward e-cigarettes, study says
Electronic cigarettes have surpassed traditional smoking in popularity among teens, the government’s annual drug use survey finds.Associated Press file photo Researchers were surprised at how many eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders…
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Nuts nutrient-packed, but only 4 in 10 eat them
‘If you eat in moderation, they are really good for you’
La Plata Health Watch
No one says night shifts are easy
Actually, it’s longer than that. In college, I worked several summers in a major-chain, meat-packing plant. The worst shift was from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., unloading 10,000 to 12,000…
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Switch to farming made our skeletons fragile
That transition gave humans the energy and time they needed to build society as it is today. But according to a pair of new studies published in the Proceedings of…
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The Citizens Health Advisory Council has published on its website a report about the Health Information Technology Summit held earlier this year. Speakers included a health-care policy expert, an authority…
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Genetic counselors in Colorado Springs are now meeting with patients in Durango by two-way video conferencing. In a partnership with Mercy Regional Medical Center, patients seeking genetic-counseling services can schedule…
La Plata Health Watch
Manage your medications responsibly
If you think about it, a century ago, with the exception of aspirin, few effective chemical treatments existed. For instance, antibiotics are a relatively new phenomenon. Although Alexander Fleming developed…
Nation & World
Crunch time for health-insurance sign-ups
President Barack Obama’s health-insurance expansion faces the biggest test of its second year on Monday, the deadline to sign up for coverage that starts Jan. 1. The deadline will indicate…
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Herd immunity is strong case for vaccination
The young child developed infection of the lining of the brain, known as meningitis, as well as bacterial blood infection. The infection was so severe that it resulted in the…
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Narcotic painkillers are used more, longer
Overdoses involving these types of drugs are the leading cause of accidental death
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Focus on looks can foil weight loss
A team of researchers at Waginengen University in Netherlands found that paying too much attention to your appearance can impair your ability to tell when you’re full. Specifically, the presence…
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The practitioners at Pura Vida Healthcare will host a free afternoon of 20-minute sessions and classes from noon to 5 p.m. Jan. 10 at 160 E. 12th St., Suite 1.…