CU Anschutz In The News

Haemer, who also serves as an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics/Section of Nutrition at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, noted that price can be a barrier. The generic version of phentermine and topiramate can cost around $30 a month and GLP-1 agonists are upwards of $1,500 per month, he said. However, he noted that drug companies offer programs that will provide the medications at a discounted rate.

“It is nearly uniformly fatal,” said Doug Ney, the professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who is handling Bruce’s treatment. “The average survival tends to be about 16 to 20 months.”

“Midwife means 'with woman,'” Alvarez noted, clearing up any confusion about the terminology. But most people do think of midwives as women. There are only around 100 male midwives working in the United States. Soon there will be one more — Alvarez is the only male student in the nurse midwife program at the University of Colorado College of Nursing on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

"It made them comfortable enough to tolerate having surgery on an insensate arm in comparison to usual care," said Dr. Adeel Faruki of UCHealth [and assistant professor at CU School of Medicine], who is one of the lead researchers on the study.

A study published in 2017 indicates that when laws like Jake's Law are passed, there is an increase in the number of concussions that are reported. About 2 1/2 years after traumatic brain injury laws are passed, rates of recurrent concussions significantly decline, according to the Colorado School of Public Health.

SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations indicate a slow decline in infections statewide but increases in some regions, for example, and the state’s positivity rate has plateaued above 5%, modelers from the Colorado School of Public Health wrote in their latest report, dated Oct. 6.

Pisney is an infectious disease specialist, and she and Dr. Ross Kedl, a professor of immunology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, explained the updated boosters use the original vaccine plus some added proteins to protect against omicron BA.4 and BA.5. “Very little is actually different. All the things that were in them before are in them again,” said Kedl.

"If you're using drugs right now, you don't know what you're getting. We have a completely unregulated supply. And so that's what makes this so dangerous on top of the fact that it's more potent," said Josh Barocas, an infectious disease physician and addiction researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.