The News Early last year, as the United States grappled with a record Covid-19 surge, the levels of coronavirus in a community’s wastewater were closely aligned with two other statistics that measured the toll of
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Colorado’s first human West Nile case in 2023 in La Plata County
Colorado health officials diagnosed the West Nile Virus in a La Plata County resident Monday, marking the state’s first human case of the virus this year. According to a Monday news release from the Colorado
Read moreA Number That Should Guide Your Health Choices (It’s Not Your Age)
At her annual visit, the patient’s doctor asks if she plans to continue having regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer, and then reminds her that it’s been almost 10 years since her last colonoscopy.
Read moreMore states legalize sales of unpasteurized milk, despite public health warnings – The Denver Post
LORIMOR, Iowa — Babe the goat is trendier than she looks. Babe lives a quiet life on a hillside farm in southern Iowa, where she grazes on grass with a small herd of fellow goats.
Read moreSue Johanson, Who Talked Sex With Aplomb, Dies at 92
Sue Johanson, the blunt, bawdy and beloved Canadian sex educator and host of the long-running television call-in program “Sunday Night Sex Show” and its American counterpart, “Talk Sex With Sue Johanson,” died on June 28
Read moreAntibiotic Shortage Could Worsen Syphilis Epidemic
A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial to the fight against syphilis is alarming infectious disease experts, who warn that a protracted scarcity of the drug could worsen the U.S. epidemic of the
Read moreCDC to reduce funding for states’ child vaccination programs – The Denver Post
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing funding to states for child vaccination programs, according to an agency email obtained by KFF Health News. The funding cut “is a significant change to your
Read moreMontezuma County resident infected with plague
An adult in Montezuma County has gotten sick with plague, and health officials are urging everyone to avoid exposure to fleas and rodents. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment didn’t release any details
Read moreHospice Is a Profitable Business, but Nonprofits Mostly Do a Better Job
In the nearly 20 years that Megan Stainer worked in nursing homes in and around Detroit, she could almost always tell which patients near death were receiving care from nonprofit hospice organizations and which from
Read moreNonprofit Health System Pauses Policy of Cutting Off Care for Patients in Debt
Allina Health, a large nonprofit health system based in Minnesota, announced on Friday that it would stop withholding care from patients with outstanding medical debt as it “re-examines” its policy of cutting off services for
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