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NEW YORK – On low-carb diets, meat and cheese are OK. On low-fat diets, fruit and oatmeal are fine. With the latest diet trend, no foods at all are allowed for long stretches of time. A diet that...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Health
Some retail vape shops in Durango are looking to diversify their business models after reports about hospitalizations and deaths associated with vaping drove a sales decline. “About a fourth of my...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
NEW YORK – This year, the germs roared back. Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased. And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
Lauren Loftis, a doctor in town, was training for her first marathon this year when she developed an inflamed tendon in her knee, a condition that felt like someone stabbing her with an ice pick. ...
DATE: Dec. 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
Health officials now blame vitamin E acetate for the “vast majority” of cases in the U.S. outbreak of vaping illnesses and they say doctors should monitor patients more closely after they go home...
DATE: Dec. 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – Would you put down that bag of chips if you saw it had 170 calories? What if the label said it would take 16 minutes of running to burn off those calories? Health experts for years have...
DATE: Dec. 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people say...
DATE: Dec. 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – The death toll in the vaping illness outbreak has topped 50, U.S. health officials said Thursday, Dec. 12. The 52 deaths in 26 states are among the 2,409 hospitalized cases that have...
DATE: Dec. 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
TRENTON, N.J. – U.S. regulators on Friday approved expanded use of a fish oil-based drug for preventing serious heart complications in high-risk patients already taking cholesterol-lowering pills....
DATE: Dec. 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
New results from the largest long-term study of brain development and children’s health raise provocative questions about obesity and brain function. Does excess body weight somehow reduce brain...
DATE: Dec. 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
Add facial cuts, bruises and fractures to the risks from cellphones and carelessly using them. That’s according to a study published Dec. 5 that found a spike in U.S. emergency room treatment for...
DATE: Dec. 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
NEW YORK – The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years. An early barrage of illness in the South has begun to spread more broadly, and there’s a decent chance flu...
DATE: Dec. 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
