Dr. Joe Sakai is an addiction psychiatrist who teaches in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus. He also works with patients with substance abuse disorders, including meth. He will be one of the principal investigators during an upcoming trial for a potential treatment for meth addiction.
“We think about air quality, we think about water security, we think about wildfires, extreme heat and extreme weather events and what it does to our communities,” said Dr. Jay Lemery, who helped found the University of Colorado School (CU) of Medicine’s Climate and Health Program, which focuses on the impact of climate change on human health.
Here's part of our conversation with infectious disease specialist Dr. Michelle Barron (of CU School of Medicine): On the Omicron-specific booster: "It's Omicron specific, BA.4 and BA.5, which is what we've been seeing for the last several month circulating. The other booster previous to this and original vaccine were based on the original strain of COVID. This one in theory will give you a little bit broader protection because it's more specific to what were seeing," Barron said.
Exercise is good for all parts of a person's body, but doctors don't know how cells in the body actually respond. Dr. Wendy Kohrt, a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at CU Anschutz, is hoping to help change that.
Students with the CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy collected bags full of outdated medication on Saturday as part of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
Here is part of our conversation with infectious disease expert Dr. Michelle Barron with UCHealth and Jonathan Samet, the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health which models COVID behavior.
There could also be some cases of BA.2 in the U.S. that aren’t being reported since the subvariant is more difficult to detect, Payal Kohli, M.D., assistant clinical professor of medicine at University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, said.
“What we wanted to better understand was, how can we predict which of these kids was going to end up in the ICU and get really sick so that we could be more aggressive with their treatment up front,” said Dr. Blake Martin, a pediatrician and associate professor at CU School of Medicine.
