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A Durango Veterans Acupuncture Clinic will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at 635 East Fifth Ave. This is a free,…
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Whooping cough shot stops illness, not spread
people from getting sick, but doesn’t halt contagion
La Plata Health Watch
Early recognition of stroke can limit damage to brain
Stroke generally comes in two major varieties; hemorrhagic and non-hemorrhagic. Hemorrhagic stroke results from bleeding into the brain from a ruptured blood vessel. Non-hemorrhagic stroke typically results from obstruction of…
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Tongue pierce lets paralyzed pilot wheelchairs
Key to this wireless system: Users get their tongue pierced with a magnetic stud that resembles jewelry and acts like a joystick, in hopes of offering them more mobility and…
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Health Brief
A Durango Veterans Acupuncture Clinic will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at 635 East Fifth Ave. This is a free,…
La Plata Health Watch
We remain free to choose our own poison
They look for a medical power of attorney, which may dictate what measures are acceptable or unacceptable during transport or at the hospital. They also make a sweep of the…
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Report: Treating insomnia helps heal depression
The findings, based on an insomnia treatment that uses talk therapy rather than drugs, are the first to emerge from a series of closely watched studies of sleep and depression…
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Nuts may lower risk for death
A 30-year Harvard study shows that eating nuts lowers the risk of death. Benefits were seen from peanuts as well as from pistachios, almonds, walnuts and other tree nuts.Associated Press…
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Coffee may help your blood vessels work better
But that doesn’t mean you should guzzle gallons of java. Previous research has shown that moderate coffee consumption may have some beneficial effects on cardiovascular health. However, the precise mechanism…
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Health Briefs
A Durango Veterans Acupuncture Clinic will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at 635 East Fifth Ave. This is a free,…
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In new fight against fat, doctors told to get serious
‘Telling patients to lose weight is not enough’
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Fewer teens smoke but more use e-cigarettes
Overall tobacco use fell among teens in 2012, but use of e-cigarettes and hookahs increased, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.Associated Press file Overall tobacco use among middle…
La Plata Health Watch
Not every ‘magic bullet’ leads to a cure
His operatory was simple, consisting of a case of dental instruments, a syringe of lidocaine and a folding chair. This Caribbean nation did not have a modern dental suite with…
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Using testosterone may increase risk for heart failure
The results raise concerns about the widely used testosterone gels, patches or injections that are heavily marketed for low sex drive, fatigue and purported anti-aging benefits, the authors and other…
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Boys are a bit more likely to be born early
Music therapist Elizabeth Klinger plays guitar and sings for Augustin as he grips the hand of his mother, Lucy Morales, in the newborn intensive care unit at Ann & Robert…
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Health Briefs
A Durango Veterans Acupuncture Clinic will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Mondays and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at 635 East Fifth Ave. This is a free,…
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Being bilingual may delay dementia
The study, conducted in India and published in the journal Neurology, is not the first to reach this conclusion. But it is the largest and comes with an intriguing new…
Coroner's Report
When suicide isn’t: Cultures interpret death differently
Before Campbell’s work, cloning complex creatures was impossible. Mature cells are specialized. Each contains the complete DNA code to form a new being, but most of this information is genetically…
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HIV-like virus suppressed in monkey experiment
In monkeys, that strategy sharply reduced blood levels of a cousin of HIV. The results also gave tantalizing hints that someday the tactic might help destroy the AIDS virus in…
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Study: soda tax would reduce UK obesity
Though the number works out to a modest drop of 1.3 percent in obesity, scientists say reduction would still be worthwhile in the U.K., which has a population of about…
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Health Briefs
The nonprofit Citizens Health Advisory Council will meet from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday at Durango Community Recreation Center in the Eolus Room, 2700 Main Ave. The council is an…
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U.S. malaria count hits 40-year high
Malaria is not a big problem in the U.S. – there were only 1,925 cases in 2011, including five deaths. But cases were up 14 percent from the previous year,…