Article by Carey Candrian, PhD (she/her), associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine: “The takeaway was this: Violence and violent threats targeting LGBTQ communities is at an all-time high. And federal threat monitoring has shown that these threats are incredibly tied to domestic violent extremists and hate crime actors.”
"Most of the fructose we have comes from high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar and added sugar, which are made of glucose and fructose," Richard Johnson, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Newsweek. "Soft drinks can have as much as 30 grams of fructose in them, while a kiwi may have just 2 to 3 grams."
"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."
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."
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.
The UCHealth - University of Colorado Hospital is the 12th best hospital in the United States, according to Newsweek’s 2020 rankings.
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."
