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It is not uncommon for many of us to take our sense of vision for granted.You might ask yourself when you last had a preventive eye exam. Yet diseases of the eye often are not symptomatic in early...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
ATLANTA - Food regulators didn't consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation's top...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
A new Colorado law requiring insurance companies to pay for hearing aids for children goes a long way to interrupt a chain reaction that can follow untreated hearing problems, La Plata County...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
WASHINGTON - Research-ers are using a NASA gadget to finally tell if a cataract is brewing before someone's vision clouds over.It's a story of shot-in-the-dark science that paid off with a...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
A previous column discussed chain saw injuries - the saw's bite is worse than its bark, but the bark should not be ignored, either. To promote safety involving what is intrinsically the most...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
The legacy of milling uranium in Durango from 1948 to 1963 has left the area with residual radiation that continues to be a health concern, a San Juan Basin Health Department official says.Half of...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
As of this writing, Colorado was one of a handful of states experiencing local or regional influenza activity. While January and February are typically peak months for the flu, outbreaks can occur...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
Yoga, a millennia-old philosophy originating in India to unify mind and body through physical and mental exercise, can serve a much more utilitarian purpose, says a Durango instructor of the...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
Ear infections are the most common condition for which children are prescribed antibiotics in the United States.Yet for many of these infections, antibiotics are not the solution. More importantly,...
DATE: Jan. 5, 2009 | CATEGORY: Health
