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Maine Resident Dies of Rare Tick-Borne Virus as Cases Spread Across U.S.

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Publish DateMay 18, 2023

"Most people who are infected have no symptoms and fully recover," Daniel Pastula, an associate professor of neurology, infectious diseases and epidemiology at the University of Colorado school of Medicine, previously told Newsweek. "A subset, within one to four weeks develop a pretty bad flu-like illness. And a subset of those people develop Powassan neuroinvasive disease. That's where we are seeing the severity."

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New York City to End Solitary Confinement in City Jails

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Publish DateJune 18, 2021

Jeffrey Metzner, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told the American Psychological Association that "It's hard to give a reasonable argument that you can provide adequate treatment to someone with serious mental illness who's locked up in a cell for 23 hours a day. Our correctional system has become our mental health system for too many people."

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How Promising is the Vaccine News if People Won't Take it? | Opinion

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Publish DateDecember 11, 2020

This op-ed was written by the Risk & Social Policy Working Group, an interdisciplinary team of scholars formed to study risk messaging and public policy during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Katie Dickinson, Colorado School of Public Health, and Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Colorado School of Public Health.

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Best Hospitals 2020 - USA

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Publish DateJune 15, 2020

The UCHealth - University of Colorado Hospital is the 12th best hospital in the United States, according to Newsweek’s 2020 rankings.

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Ancient Egypt's Mythical Female Doctor Merit Ptah Helped 'Open Medicine and Stem to Women'

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Publish DateDecember 18, 2019

Jakub Kwiecinski, a medical historian at the University of Colorado, turned a detective eye on Merit Ptah to trace her backstory and find out where the myth came from. Writing in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Kwiecinski concludes Merit Ptah is a case of mistaken identity but while she might not be real in the historic sense, the myth helped "open medicine and STEM to women."

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