CU Anschutz In The News

"Overexpressing KIF11 in mice did not affect the amyloid levels in the brain," said the study's co-senior author Huntington Potter, Ph.D., professor of neurology and director of the University of Colorado Alzheimer's and Cognition Center and of Alzheimer's research at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "Yet they were still cognitively normal despite the plaques. This is one of the best indications that you can maintain cognition without getting rid of the plaques."

A team of investigators from the University of Colorado College of Nursing at CU Anschutz Medical Campus and National Jewish Health has identified comprehensive guidelines for managing severe atopic dermatitis (AD), the most common form of eczema.

“It is commonly thought that the medical profession is more enlightened around parental support than other professions, but it really isn’t,” said the study’s lead author Emily Gottenborg, MD, assistant professor in the division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “We found a lack of paid leave policies in academic settings, difficulty in support for breastfeeding, and loss of career opportunities when new parents return to work.” Gottenborg said hospital medicine is unique in that 47 percent of practitioners are women and 80 percent are under age 40, indicative of a large proportion of women entering the profession during a time in life when many want to start a family.

"Often, Medicare patients with terminal cancer and their families are given a terrible choice: You can continue treatments or have hospice care, but not both. But the VA has this unique structure where we can provide cancer therapies that are designed to be disease-modifying while also referring patients for hospice care in the community. Now Medicare is exploring the possibility of concurrent treatment and hospice, and we said, wait we've been doing this in the VA for a long time! Maybe our experience can inform Medicare's experiment," says Cari Levy, MD, Ph.D., investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, professor in the CU School of Medicine Department of Health Care Policy and Research.