The new study is probably the first "that has shown a relationship between the proportion of fat mass at birth and later childhood obesity," said study senior author Dr. Dana Dabelea, a professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver's Anschutz Medical Campus. "We know that the higher the birth weight of the baby, the higher the weight later in life," Dabelea added.
Anyone planning to use marijuana should discuss possible risks with their health professional first, said Page, who is a professor in the department of clinical pharmacy and physical medicine/rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Aurora, Colorado. "If people choose to use cannabis for its medicinal or recreational effects, the oral and topical forms, for which doses can be measured, may reduce some of the potential harms," Page said in a statement.
"Alzheimer's and other kinds of dementia can cause changes in thinking and memory that could make someone unsafe to handle a gun, even if that person has a lifetime of experience," said lead researcher Dr. Emmy Betz, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, in a statement.
Asked about a warning from the Colorado School of Public Health about the threat of a second spike in cases, Polis told Tapper, "Yeah, we're all worried about a potential for a second spike, whether it's in the Fall, along with flu season in September/October, whether it's July."
"The kind of historic viewpoint has been that they must have missed the pill; they must have done something wrong," he said. That explanation wasn't good enough for him: "I started talking with a pharmacogeneticist at the University of Colorado and came upon this fascinating area that hadn't yet been applied really to women's health care or at all to birth control."
Dr. Carl Bartecchi of the University of Colorado School of Medicine visits the hospital twice a year for two or three weeks at a time to teach students. He’s been going since 1997, when much of the city was very different. “You’d drive into town, and it used to be all rice fields. You’d see water buffalo, people working there,” Bartecchi said. “Now there’s a lot of buildings going up there and palm trees line the way. There are brand new bridges going into town and along the way, you see some new high-rise buildings.”
“That ‘freaking out’ should be taken seriously,” said child psychiatrist Steven Berkowitz, visiting professor at the CU School of Medicine. “While that man might not be the perp, someone who looked like him might be.”
Dr. Kenneth Tyler, a professor and chair of the department of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and another adviser to the CDC on AFM, agreed. "I'm glad to see they're moving in the right direction," he said. Both neurologists praised the CDC for becoming more communicative and responsive about AFM with doctors and patients over the past two weeks. Jeremy Wilcox, a Virginia man whose son was diagnosed with AFM in September, also praised the agency for becoming more open. Parents of children with AFM say that for years, their emails to the CDC went unanswered.
