Health
Coroner's Report
Coroner correct to rule Brady death a homicide
A Virginia medical examiner certified his death a homicide – a consequence of the gunshot wound to the head he sustained when John Hinckley tried to assassinate Reagan in 1981.…
Local News
Keep ol’ Rover off your bed
Septicemic plague has arrived in county ... and symptoms ain’t pretty
Health
Health Briefs
Mercy Regional Medical Center invites the community to join fellowship-trained spine surgeons Douglas Orndorff and Jim Youssef and guest Bill Walton – former pro basketball player and Hall of Famer…
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 competing activities, from school and extracurricular activities to family routines…
Health
Our bacteria travel everywhere with us
Researchers attempting to understand microbiome, how it affects our health
Health
How do you foil a virus mutating hundreds of times?
Scientists genetically mapping Ebola, strains
Health
Food or foe? Illness lurks in every kitchen
Pathogens can infiltrate our guts, then wreak havoc on our bodies
Health
Health Briefs
Flucke Southwest Memorial Hospital of Cortez on Sept. 1 will implement a new health information technology system designed by Cerner Corporation. This system eliminates the need for paper health records…
Health
Disabilities in kids rise; not physical problems
Researchers investigated over 10-year trend in study
Health
This one-two punch could help eradicate polio
Shots, drops – which to use has been controversial
Health
Health Brief
San Juan Basin Health Department recognizes August as National Immunization Awareness Month. Childhood vaccines protect against serious and potentially life-threatening diseases, and children need certain vaccines to attend school. For…
Health
Williams’ death spurs hotline calls
national crisis center saw jump to 1.4M Facebook visitors from its usual 91,000
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 cause of the problem lies in the way we choose…
Health
Health Briefs
The Upper Pine River Fire Protection District will offer CPR and first aid classes at the Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive. The next CPR class will be held…
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 comes to optimizing our health through hormones, balance is the…
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 pumped air into her lungs. Tubes protruding from every orifice…
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 health-care costs annually. Perhaps most important is the fact that…
Health
Hold that handshake: Fist bumps are less germy
hospitals, doctors adopt this greeting as new standard?