Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Washington University in St. Louis have identified a way to assess brain activity in sleep that occurs in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease, typically many years prior to developing symptoms of dementia.
In partnership with the UCHealth Mobile Stroke Treatment Unit, University of Colorado School of Medicine researchers are measuring blood samples of patients within minutes of stroke onset and discovering data that could change the way many stroke patients are treated.
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In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers provide answers to whether COVID-19 vaccinations reduce sickness and mortality following infection with SARS-CoV-2.
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September 14, 2023
It’s been 30 years since Americans began looking at hamburgers differently. In 1993, what started as an alert from a Seattle emergency department doctor of an unusual number of bloody diarrhea cases ended in the then-largest foodborne outbreak in the nation’s history.
Dr. Danielle Wilhour, assistant professor and neurologist with the University of Colorado School of Medicine on Anschutz Medical Campus, explains what a migraine is and why women are more susceptible to them than men. She also explains why there's new hope for new treatments in the near future.
Firearms are involved in more than half of suicides in the U.S. The gun suicide rate has reached an all-time high, and for the first time, the rate is higher among Black kids and teens than white ones, according to a recent analysis by Johns Hopkins University. William Brangham speaks with Dr. Emmy Betz, director of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative, to learn more.
Unfortunately, pain is one of the hardest things to treat in medicine, said Dr. Gabrielle Whitmore, an OB/GYN and an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
There’s no question that eating highly processed, calorically dense, and nutrient deficient foods like fast food and convenience foods has contributed to the obesity crisis, along with the drastic reduction of daily physical activity, says Bonnie T. Jortberg, PhD, RD, an associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, who was not involved in this study.
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