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For Dan Caplin with Colorado Addiction Treatment Services, treating people addicted to opioids is complicated to say the least. “This is so multifactorial,” he said, before listing about 10 local...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – Researchers on Tuesday reported another record one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate, a drop they attribute to success against lung cancer. The overall cancer death rate has...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
GENEVA – The World Health Organization’s chief scientist warned that even as numerous countries start rolling out vaccination programs to stop COVID-19, herd immunity is highly unlikely this year....
DATE: Jan. 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
A group of 400 medical volunteers is organizing to begin vaccinating residents of La Plata County who are 70 and older, hoping to hold their first event possibly in the second half of the month....
DATE: Jan. 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News
The U.S. could soon be giving at least a million COVID-19 vaccinations a day despite the sluggish start, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday, even as he warned of a dangerous next few weeks as the...
DATE: Jan. 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
The first Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 are getting their second dose, while Britain has decided to postpone boosters and focus instead on giving more people a first shot – international...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy. When the virus first arrived in U.S. hospitals, doctors could only guess what was causing its strange constellation of symptoms: What...
DATE: Dec. 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won’t work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new strains of the coronavirus, especially the one now moving...
DATE: Dec. 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
WASHINGTON – The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths a day....
DATE: Dec. 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – The U.S. COVID-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of health-care workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January,...
DATE: Dec. 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – The first shots of COVID-19 vaccine are being delivered, but it will likely be months before doses are widely available for everyone at U.S. drugstores and doctor’s office. Details are...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
WASHINGTON – The U.S. gave the final go-ahead Friday to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans....
DATE: Dec. 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
