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New sensors monitor sick babies without wires blocking hugs

A soft, flexible wireless sensor applied on a foot of a family’s baby, who is involved in the clinical trial…

March 4, 2019

Using 1 germ to fight another when today’s antibiotics fail

“I’m really running out of options,” said Balasa, who traveled from her Richmond, Virginia, home to Yale University for the…

March 4, 2019

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Comfort Keepers offers professional caregiving class

The Caregiver Learning Academy offers comprehensive caregiver education to people considering a career in professional caregiving in the communities of…

March 3, 2019

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How ‘completely avoidable’ measles cases continue to climb

The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017…

March 1, 2019

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Mercy Home Health is among the top 100 home health agencies in U.S.

HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of agencies based on performance measures. This year, those measures included quality of…

March 1, 2019

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Joy of Life Family Medicine to host breastfeeding workshop

The class will cover topics such as the benefits of breastfeeding, proper latch and positioning, how to know if your…

February 23, 2019

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Mercy to offer free class to those with prediabetes March 1

The class is offered to anyone who has been diagnosed with prediabetes. Sheena Carswell and Marge Morris will lead the…

February 22, 2019

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Researchers find clues that depression may speed brain aging

A nuclear medicine technologist makes a PET scan of a patient at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Depression has long…

February 21, 2019

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Flu vaccine doing a relatively good job this season

Preliminary figures released Thursday suggest this winter’s vaccine is 47 percent effective overall in preventing flu illness severe enough to…

February 18, 2019

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Mercy Recognized as a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital

The annual award is a designation of performance excellence based on results from the Hospital Strength Index from iVantage Health…

February 16, 2019

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Animas Surgical Hospital to host ear, nose, and throat roundtable

The discussion for medical professionals will cover how dysfunction of the ears, nose and throat can dramatically affect a patientâ€™s…

February 15, 2019

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Cleaning routine shows promise in curbing superbug infection

Researcher Raheeb Saavedra demonstrates how to use a medicated ointment for a study on preventing superbug infections. Hospitalized patients who…

February 13, 2019

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Group seeks feedback about behavioral health, substance abuse treatment

Questions will include: What do you want from your health care? What has worked well for your care? What changes/improvements…

February 13, 2019

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Pea-sized pill delivers insulin shot from inside the stomach

The components of swallowable self-righting device which can inject drugs from inside the stomach. The new invention, reported Feb. 7,…

February 11, 2019

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Telemedicine’s challenge: Getting patients to click the app

Caitlin Powers sits in the living room of her Brooklyn apartment in New York, and has a telemedicine video conference…

February 6, 2019

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Workshop to address wellness, nutrition

Research has shown links between food, health and disease. The workshop will address how food and lifestyle choices have the…

February 6, 2019

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Chronic pain given as top reason for using medical marijuana

Chronic pain is the most commonly cited reason people give when they enroll in state medical cannabis programs. A study…

February 5, 2019

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Nearly half of U.S. adults have heart or blood vessel disease

Associated Press file<br><br>A laptop computer monitors a patient’s heart function as he takes a stress test while riding a stationary…

February 3, 2019

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Study: Many small kids in U.S. are using too much toothpaste

A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, says too many young…

February 1, 2019

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After the overdose: A family’s journey into grief and guilt

“Keep going, Daddy,” she’s saying. It’s been months since they knelt over his 20-year-old son on the bedroom floor. But…

January 28, 2019

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Health department offers HPV vaccine

Every year in the U.S., human papillomavirus causes 30,700 cancers in men and women, and each day, 33 women are…

January 27, 2019

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Miller Middle School to host health forum Feb. 6

A panel of specialists will discuss gut-brain health and how it affects migraines, ADHD, depression, the teen brain and more.…

January 26, 2019

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Heart Safe La Plata to offer first-aid, CPR classes

A basic first-aid class will be held at 3 p.m. and an adult/child/infant CPR class will be held at 6…

January 24, 2019

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In limbo: Leftover embryos challenge clinics, couples

Kimberly Malm removes a container with frozen embryos and sperm being stored in liquid nitrogen at a fertility clinic in…

January 21, 2019