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Pfizer says maternal RSV vaccine prevents infection in infants

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Publish DateNovember 03, 2022

Eric A.F. Simões, MD, clinical professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, said in the release that the vaccine could have a “significant impact” on the disease throughout the world.

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Menopause symptoms may be associated with later health risks

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Publish DateOctober 28, 2022

Santoro, who is a professor and the E. Stewart Taylor Chair of OB/GYN at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, explains that menopause is an “irregularly irregular” process in which the ovary responds to a reduced follicle supply. This results in higher hormone elevations and lower hormone drops and can produce prodromal symptoms even before abnormal menstruation is noticed.

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Pediatric heart transplant waiting times rose during pandemic, but mortality did not

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Publish DateOctober 13, 2022

Most recipient and donor characteristics were similar between the groups, but recipients during the pandemic period were less likely to have ventilatory support before transplant than those during the pre-pandemic period (7% vs. 12%; P = .01), John Iguidbashian, MD, a general surgery resident at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.

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Study does not prove link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and asthma

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Publish DateOctober 06, 2022

The CDC-funded study was conducted by Matthew F. Daley, MD, a pediatrician and senior clinician investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research and associate professor in the department of pediatrics at University of Colorado School of Medicine, and colleagues.

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Women with breast cancer want more education on sexual health during treatment

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Publish DateSeptember 29, 2022

“We collected patient-reported outcome surveys in patients with breast cancer since 2019 and noted that of the four domains of quality of life we measure, sexual well-being was the lowest when we first saw women with breast cancer,” Sarah Tevis, MD, assistant professor of surgical oncology at University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio.

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Q&A: Understanding pediatric hepatitis cases linked to adenovirus

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Publish DateMay 13, 2022

We spoke with Kevin Messacar, MD, PhD, a pediatric infectious disease physician and researcher at Children's Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, about the cases and other uncommon pediatric illnesses caused by infections, including acute flaccid myelitis (AFM).

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Moderate wine consumption with meals may help reduce type 2 diabetes risk

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Publish DateMarch 04, 2022

The relationship between alcohol and diabetes remains controversial, Robert Eckel, MD, FAHA, emeritus professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology and endocrinology/metabolism/diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and past president of the AHA, said in the release. “These data suggest that it’s not the alcohol with meals but other ingredients in wine, perhaps antioxidants, that may be the factor in potentially reducing new-onset type 2 diabetes,” he said. 

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Youth from rural communities at increased risk for firearm-related suicide

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Publish DateOctober 15, 2021

“Firearms are very lethal, so a suicide attempt with a firearm is much more likely to end in death,” co-author Ashley Brooks-Russell, PhD, MPH, director of the Injury and Violence Prevention Center at Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healio Psychiatry. “Not much is known about youth access to firearms in the U.S. We used a state-funded surveillance system, with a newly added question about perceived access to handguns, to look at regional variation of firearm access in Colorado and how it correlates to suicidality.”

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