CU Anschutz In The News

Emmy Betz, an emergency physician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who focuses on firearm injury prevention, said a central tenet of responsible firearm ownership is preventing access to that weapon to kids and other unauthorized people. “We know that kids are curious, kids are often impulsive, their brains are not fully formed,” Betz said. “As adults, one of the things we need to be doing is making sure that they don’t have access to dangerous things. “It can be with a trigger lock, a cable lock. There are lots of different ways to do that. But the main thing is it shouldn't just be hidden somewhere,” she said.

Emmy Betz is an emergency physician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where her research focuses on preventing suicide by gun."Seventy-six percent of firearm deaths in Colorado are suicides," Betz said. We need to be talking about those." In the conversation, Betz discussed mental health stigmas; extreme risk protection orders (so-called 'Red Flag' laws), which allow judges to temporarily confiscate guns from those who pose an imminent risk; and hospitals' ability to combat mental illness. The question is, does the United States have a gun epidemic?

CU Anschutz researchers found that choline can help expecting women protect the brains of their unborn children from problems caused by the flu and other viruses in the mother.

Researchers at CU Anschutz have zeroed in on a chromosome location that might help explain the high rates of asthma in people of African descent.

So, how should recreationalists evaluate the relative risks? While she was a graduate student at the University of Colorado’s School of Public Health, Lauren Pierpoint helped research high school sports injuries. Every time she is asked about risks, she tell people she “doesn’t have the answer.” For years, the research project thoroughly tracked injuries in practice and competition. They used athletic trainers as data reporters. Pierpoint said there’s nothing comparable for outdoor sports. “Most outdoor recreational sports that a Coloradan would be interested in almost all of them have no good data,” she said.

You're lying down and you turn you head slightly. Then it hits. The room spins uncontrollably for what may feel like forever but could be as short as 30 seconds. The sensation is vertigo, and it affects millions of people. One of those people is Dr. Carol Foster, who specializes in vertigo at the University of Colorado's School of Medicine. She’s also the author of “Overcoming Positional Vertigo," which shares her findings. Foster talked to Colorado Matters about the common phenomena. Vertigo happens when crystals found in the ear and sense gravity fall out of place and create the disorienting illusion of spinning.