"The attorney was representing the daughters of an elderly gentleman who had moved from the East Coast to Colorado to be closer to them," said Victoroff, who teaches bioethics in the MBA program at the University of Denver and also practices at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Non-EoE EGIDs are rare chronic inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, estimated at less than 200,000 cases annually in the United States, with unknown long-term consequences, Glenn Furuta, MD, professor of pediatrics at University of Colorado School of Medicine and section head of gastroenterology at the Children's Hospital, Aurora, Colorado, told Medscape Medical News.
The findings "are in agreement with American Diabetes Association Standards of Care, and recent international consensus recommending CGM and AID for most people with type 1 diabetes, and early initiation of diabetes technology from the onset of type 1 diabetes," write Kagan E. Karakus, MD, of the Barbara Davis Center, and colleagues in the article, which was published online in Diabetes Care.
Daniel Pastula, MD, MHS, chief of neuroinfectious diseases and global neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health, says the state is watching troubling signs as well.
While these AI-assisted tools can help with tasks such as writing, analyzing data, catching mistakes, and much more, they are also prone to errors, noted Casey Greene, PhD, a professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado. It is also not totally clear how information is stored and processed in these kinds of tools, and who has access to that information, he noted.
Jesse D. Schold, PhD, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, raises concerns about other aspects of the heart allocation system in another related commentary. "One big issue with our data in transplantation…is that while it is very comprehensive for capturing transplant candidates and recipients, there is no data collection for patients and processes of care for patients prior to wait list placement," he told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
In an accompanying editorial, Maryam M. Asgari, MD, MPH, of the Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and Lori A. Crane, PhD, MPH, of the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, point out that people with darker skin phenotypes also tend to be affected by skin cancers that are not associated with UV radiation, such as acral melanoma, which arises on the palms and soles, and skin cancers that arise in areas of chronic inflammation, such as wounds.
"There is no magic pill," said Katherine A. Sauder, PhD, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora and lead author of the study. "There is no easy answer here."
September 08, 2023