CU Anschutz In The News

This new paper was led by principal investigator Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease doctor and associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Barocas and his colleagues focused on deaths related to drug use, which he said accounts for the “vast majority” of infections he’s seen in his career. “[Sweeps,] we predict, will contribute up to 25% of the deaths among this population over a 10-year period,” Barocas told us. “To put that a different way, it means our states and our cities are literally killing people with this.”

Environmental activist and mayoral candidate Ean Tafoya has long advocated for better railroad safety measures, and said he worries about the Uinta Basin project. He was involved in a study with GreenLatinos Colorado and Colorado School of Public Health, which found that diesel exhaust emissions from freight traffic in North Denver could lead to increased risk of cancer, poor respiratory health and cardiovascular disease.

CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy professor Rob Valuck said fentanyl can be up to 100 times stronger than morphine. “If it’s used outside medical use, it’s just extremely potent,” said Valuck, who also directs the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention. “It’s really troubling, obviously, because it doesn’t take much of it to kill (a person).”

Your drafty house may be bad for your health, according to a new University of Colorado study that suggests weatherizing homes is more than just a matter of saving money and the environment. The researchers from CU Boulder and the Colorado School of Public Health at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus measured ventilation, or air-exchange rates — the rate at which outdoor air replaces a room’s indoor air — in homes in low-income neighborhoods in Denver, Aurora and elsewhere in Colorado.

The growth at the Anschutz medical, veterans and research further down Colfax Avenue and a proposed BRT system along that storied arterial make the G-word part of the neighborhood conversation. The possible impact of gentrification seems like too much for a neighborhood association to grapple with. But it can help residents save on food, leaving more for other basics, Roberts reasons.

Colorado had the 39th lowest fatal injury rate per 100,000 full-time workers out of all 50 states, according to BLS. The director of the Center for Health, Work & Environment in Aurora, Dr. Lee Newman, said we could still do better. “One preventable workplace fatality is one preventable workplace fatality too many,” Newman said. “As a doctor, I can tell you I’ve seen enough suffering among workers who get injured on the job to say we should be aiming for zero.”