Local Updates

Colorado Springs Health Partners will hold two vaccination clinics for anyone 3 years and older, and both H1N1 and seasonal vaccine will be available. H1N1 vaccine is $15. Seasonal flu vaccine is $25. The clinics are: -Jan. 29, from 1 to 5 p.m.,...... Full story

  The Blood Bank at Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has set its January schedule. People can donate at the Blood Bank itself, at Penrose Hospital at 2222 N. Nevada Ave., or attend one of the community blood drives, the hospital system...... Full story

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BRASILIA, Brazil — The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy found with 42 needles in his body confessed to jabbing them into the toddler during weeks of rituals with a woman he claimed received instructions through trances, Brazilian police said...... Full story

WASHINGTON — Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often...... Full story

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A soldier wounded in the Iraqi desert or the rugged mountains of Afghanistan is much more likely to die there than if he suffered the same wounds in the United States. Matthew Miller and his team of researchers at...... Full story

Twelve people who say former Rose Medical Center scrub tech Kristen Parker infected them with hepatitis C asked a federal judge Wednesday to allow them to attend her upcoming blood test, polygraph test and debriefing with prosecutors. The U.S....... Full story

NEW YORK — Bryant Gumbel shocked a television audience with the news that he's recovering from lung cancer surgery and treatment. The former "Today" show anchor, 61, said a malignant tumor and part of his lung were removed two months ago. He...... Full story

Quaid announces system to prevent medicine errors LAS VEGAS — Actor Dennis Quaid is helping launch a national program to help prevent medication errors like the one that hurt his newborn twins in 2007. Quaid on Monday was expected to...... Full story

DALLAS — Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II, who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 80. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the teaching...... Full story

Thousands of people in the Colorado Springs area have been vaccinated against swine flu, and cases have continued to decline since peaking in mid-October. But health officials are holding off on the celebratory champagne, because they realize that...... Full story

Health authorities are taking swine flu vaccine clinics on the road in the next few weeks to reach residents who live in rural communities outside of Colorado Springs. Starting Monday, a mobile medical truck will set up day-long shot clinics around...... Full story

The El Paso County Department of Health and Environment will hold its third public H1N1 flu clinic at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Harrison High School, 2755 Janitell Road. Health officials expect to provide about 1,500 doses. Parking is limited, and it will...... Full story

BOULDER, Colo. — A Boulder hospital says a former nurse accused of using needles intended for patients to steal pain medication has again tested negative for HIV and hepatitis. Boulder Community Hospital said Thursday that the latest test...... Full story

DENVER — Nine more flu-related deaths have been reported in Colorado, bringing the total number of deaths this season to 34. Health officials said Wednesday that swine flu, or H1N1, accounts for “virtually all” the flu cases...... Full story