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A fitness tracker for brain health: How a headband can identify early signs of Alzheimer's disease in your sleep

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Publish DateAugust 24, 2023

"This digital biomarker essentially enables any simple EEG headband device to be used as a fitness tracker for brain health," says Brice McConnell, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and study senior author. "Demonstrating how we can assess digital biomarkers for early indications of disease using accessible and scalable headband devices in a home setting is a huge advancement in catching and mitigating Alzheimer's disease at the earliest stages."

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Do chatbot avatars prompt bias in health care?

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Publish DateJune 09, 2023

Chatbots are increasingly becoming a part of health care around the world, but do they encourage bias? That's what University of Colorado School of Medicine researchers are asking as they dig into patients' experiences with the artificial intelligence (AI) programs that simulate conversation.

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Unsafe firearm storage is common among veterans with suicidal ideation

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Publish DateApril 28, 2023

"Easy access to a loaded firearm is an important risk factor for suicide," said the study's lead author, Joseph Simonetti, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora. "It's concerning to see that this many veterans who have previously thought about ending their lives keep firearms loaded and unsecured in the home.

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Integrating addiction medicine into primary care found to be clinically effective

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Publish DateApril 14, 2023

"Providing these services in primary care settings and keeping patients healthier may help decrease costly emergency and hospital services by preventing overdoses and severe infections that can come with injection drug use," says Josh Barocas, M.D., associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "Additionally, adopting harm-reduction kits in primary care settings is an act of compassion and would likely help vulnerable users feel more compelled to step forward when in need of help."

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Patients with schizophrenia have favorable surgical risk for neurosurgical interventions like deep brain stimulation

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Publish DateApril 07, 2023

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus sought to gauge the ethics of DBS in patients who have not responded to other treatments by comparing surgical risk to disorders such as Parkinson's in which DBS is commonly used as treatment.

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Less-invasive treatment identified for HPV-unrelated head and neck cancer

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Publish DateFebruary 10, 2023

Laurel B. Darragh, MD/PhD student in the department of immunology at University of Colorado Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus, and colleagues sought to assess the safety of hypofractionated SBRT with neoadjuvant single-dose durvalumab among 21 patients (median age, 61 years; 67% men; 66.7% heavy smokers) with HPV-unrelated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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New drug combination may effectively treat often fatal childhood brain tumor

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Publish DateJanuary 19, 2023

"An oncogene called MYC is amplified in these tumors making them very susceptible to recurrence. In addition, there's a greater risk of it spreading to other areas of the brain and down the spine," said Siddhartha Mitra, Ph.D., assistant professor of Hematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and University of Colorado Cancer Center member. "The five-year survival rate of this cancer is less than 45 percent. We wanted to discover better treatment options for these kids."

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Improved treatment technique for Fuchs' dystrophy shows promise

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Publish DateJanuary 19, 2023

A newer technique for preparing corneal tissue for transplantation has been shown to be safe and effective, while providing a faster and smoother process than the traditional technique, according to researchers in the Department of Ophthalmology at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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