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Patient Care    Diabetes    Clinical Research   

Call for Type 1 Diabetes Screening Gains Momentum

Author Debra Melani | Publish Date November 22, 2023

With the largest universal screening programs in the country, researchers at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes (BDC) have known for years that testing all children for type 1 diabetes (T1D) could prevent the heartbreak and life-threatening complications that late-stage diagnosis can cause. Yet, until recently, they have often felt alone in their educational efforts.

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Research   

Into Thin Air: Genetic Factors Drive Metabolic Adaptations Linked to Acclimatization

At higher altitudes, oxygen is limited, making it more difficult for people to breathe. Red blood cells deliver oxygen to tissues using hemoglobin, one of the most abundant proteins in the human body.


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Students    Graduation

Making a Difference

Mykell Fisher knows from personal experience how a nurse can make a difference in someone’s life and put them on a path to a career in healthcare.


School NameCollege of Nursing
AuthorMolly Smerika | Publish DateDecember 01, 2023
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Community

Embrace Giving This Holiday Season 

Between an uptick in social obligations, dealing with family tensions, and the pressure to have a Hallmark-worthy season of joy, the holidays can be one of the most stressful times of the year. 


School NameSchool of Medicine
AuthorGreg Glasgow | Publish DateDecember 01, 2023
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Deans Notes

Three Myths Hindering Advancements in Public Health

I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and short break! It is hard to believe that the semester is coming to a close. Each year, I rent a house on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to spend the break with my two sons. Sometimes, it’s just us. Other times, friends come along and fill the house. This year, it was just us. On one of the days, it rained – not in the way it rains in Colorado, but a 14-hour soaking rain. The day opened space to contemplate the future of public health how we make strides toward improving the health of our society.


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mHealth    Community and Practice    Equity Diversity and Inclusion   

ColoradoSPH Takes Lead Role in Advancing Equity and Diversity in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation

The Executive Order on the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) issued by President Biden on October 30 is a directive that contains no fewer than 13 sections. But two words in the opening line strike at the challenge presented by AI: “promise” and “peril.”

As the document’s statement of purpose puts it, AI can help to make the world “more prosperous, productive, innovative, and secure” at the same that it increases the risk of “fraud, discrimination, bias, and disinformation,” and other threats.


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Community and Practice    Equity Diversity and Inclusion   

Ambassadors for Literacy and Resilience Guides Young Students Along a Path to Success

Sonya Palafox was a freshman at North High School in Denver 25 years ago when she got a message kids don’t want to hear: come to the principal’s office. She had no way of knowing it at the time, but the call would represent a turning point in her life.


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CU Anschutz In the News

STAT

New research supports potential link between low-level lead exposure and liver injury

STAT
Publish DateDecember 01, 2023

To Wei Perng, an associate professor of epidemiology at Colorado School of Public Health who has studied the effects of toxins on liver function, it was unclear why researchers thought the length of participants’ telomeres influenced the connection between liver scarring and toxin exposure. “What may be more powerful,” she said, is to consider the combination of shorter telomere length and environmental exposures.

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Healio

‘On the cusp’ of something big: New insights into the microbiome’s role in immunity

Healio
Publish DateDecember 01, 2023

The factors that impact the interplay between the microbiome and the human immune system begin at birth, according to Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD, head of the division of rheumatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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WebMD

Soaring Use of Ketamine Creates a Health Care 'Wild West'.

WebMD
Publish DateDecember 01, 2023

Many statements about the treatment were misleading, said Michael J. DiStefano, PhD, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora and a study co-author.  “We found one case of a straight-up, false statement, saying that ketamine is FDA-approved to treat depression,” DiStefano said. He hopes to expand the research nationally. 

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KDVR

Mental health help is available in Colorado

KDVR
Publish DateDecember 01, 2023

FOX31's Kim Posey spoke with mental health experts about how to get help during the holiday season.

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