Dr. Clifton Carey with the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine doesn’t think there’s a reason to be alarmed yet. “If fluoride is interrupted or reduced for whatever reason, for only a short amount of time, you can kind of make it back up,” Carey said.
A woman who says physical therapy changed her life is raising money to help others receive the best care. Colleen Rapp was injured on the job four years ago when she slipped and hurt her back. Rapp said her physical therapist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus worked relentlessly to help her recover. Rapp said she was so motivated by her experience that she now raises money for student scholarships in the CU Physical Therapy Program.
Robert Valuck is a professor at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention. “This is one of the ways to do it that’s the most accessible. Methadone clinics are wonderful but there are not that many of them and buprenorphine could be prescribed by virtually any doctor that’s willing to get one day of training,” he said.
While she did not play a role in the study, Dr. Joy Hawkins, a professor of Anesthesiology at the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus says she has seen similar responses. “We are very willing to adapt to make the procedure safe for the patient, but this has added another little twist to the things we think about and ask about,” Hawkins said. Hawkins is among several Colorado doctors making changes to anesthetic plans for her patients who use marijuana.
The University of Colorado School of Nursing is in the middle of a groundbreaking study looking at bone density loss in aging women.
“If a woman gets diagnosed under the age of 45 for reasons that are not completely clear she will have a higher likelihood of that breast cancer returning later in life as metastatic or spread breast cancer. That goes from something curable to something treatable but not curable by most standards today,” said Dr. Virginia Borges of the CU Cancer Center. “We’ve also identified that women who are diagnosed within 10 years of their last child birth equally face an increased risk that their cancers will show up again in their bodies after they’ve gone through their treatment.”
Many patients, given little hope of surviving an aggressive form of leukemia, are now living years after diagnosis. Doctors believe a new treatment, studied at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, may even be a cure.
Dr. Benzi Kluger is Garner’s doctor at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. Kluger is co-chair of the conference and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In a news release Kluger said, “Having worked as a clinician for the past decade in Colorado, a state at the forefront of medical marijuana use, it is clear that people with PD and their families are intensely interested in the potential of marijuana and cannabinoids in helping manage symptoms and other aspects of their disease. To date, there is more hype than actual data to provide meaningful clinical information to patients with PD.”
