Wider availability of medical marijuana in Colorado starting in 2009 coincided with an increase in calls to poison control centers and hospital discharges, a new study found.
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It was just another annual checkup, nothing out of the ordinary, but as Jeanette Tellefsen was leaving her gynecologist’s office that day in 2012, she was handed a slip of paper that brought on a mixture of surprise and dread.
Every newly diagnosed breast cancer patient faces a journey that is as individual as they are. But a host of local programs means they don’t have to go it alone.
Valley Health Systems is having $55 mammogram screenings this month during the weekdays at Centennial Hills, Spring Valley and Summerlin hospitals.
To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the Breast Center at Sunrise, Southern Hills Hospital and Red Rock Radiology at MountainView Hospital are offering $75 digital screening mammograms.
Products marketed to enhance sexual performance, such as the one used by Lamar Odom at a Nye brothel, might contain other ingredients that can pose risks to users, especially when used in combination with other drugs.
Have a bag of spinach salad in your refrigerator? Be sure to check its code number. Dole Fresh Vegetables is voluntarily recalling some bagged spinach due to salmonella.
About nine months ago, Pauline Cafferkey was discharged from a London hospital — seemingly signaling her victory in beating Ebola. Now, not only is Cafferkey back in the hospital with a rare relapse of the deadly virus, but she’s gotten worse.
As we say adieu to spring and summer fruit and veggies, let’s welcome some delectable fall and winter ones into our kitchens and onto our plates. It may be cool outside, but we can heat up our meals with these flavorful, fun and healthy fruit and veggies. And by choosing seasonal options, we may not only be able to keep our bank accounts fatter, but our waistlines trim.
Turing Pharmaceuticals, the drug company that jacked up the price of a drug used by AIDS and cancer patients by more than 5,000%, is facing an antitrust probe by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Measles is still a risk for travelers, regardless of destination, and vaccination remains the best way to prevent it, according to travel health experts.
People practicing medicine without a license most often target the uninsured or those in the country illegally.
A new statewide coalition has been formed to get the country’s presidential candidates to focus on chronic disease as the real driver of increasing health care costs.
From an early age, we’re taught that breathing is part of our autonomic nervous system, like digesting food, so unless there’s a problem, it’s not something we need to think about. But, unlike digestion, we actually have the ability to control our respiration — and for good reason. Arguably, the way we breathe has the power to impact every aspect of our health and wellness, from how we think and feel to how we move.
Every October we are reminded that every two minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer.
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