CU Anschutz In The News

Producing doctors for the vast swaths of rural America needs to be more of a priority at every step in the education pipeline, experts said. Many academic centers sell students on the party line that they’ll be overworked, underappreciated and underpaid, according to Dr. Mark Deutchman, director of the University of Colorado School of Medicine's rural program. “They take people who are interested in primary care or rural and beat it out of them throughout their training,” he said.

Emmy Betz, an emergency physician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who focuses on firearm injury prevention, said a central tenet of responsible firearm ownership is preventing access to that weapon to kids and other unauthorized people. “We know that kids are curious, kids are often impulsive, their brains are not fully formed,” Betz said. “As adults, one of the things we need to be doing is making sure that they don’t have access to dangerous things. “It can be with a trigger lock, a cable lock. There are lots of different ways to do that. But the main thing is it shouldn't just be hidden somewhere,” she said.

Research from the University of Colorado School of Nursing highlighted during National Midwifery Week. National Midwifery Week runs through October 5th and the goal is to raise awareness about midwives and the options for women during childbirth. 

Among people with diabetes who develop high blood pressure, those who delay getting it under control may be more likely to have heart attacks and strokes than their counterparts who manage it promptly, a recent study suggests. “Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, which includes coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction (heart attack), and stroke. Diabetes is also a risk factor for the same clinical endpoints,” said lead researcher Dr. Sridharan Raghavan at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center.

New research is helping a 4-year-old boy by providing innovative options to treat a rare form of childhood cancer. University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus researchers can now take a patient's tumor cells, load 140 FDA-approved drugs into a machine and run hundreds of different drug combinations to see which will kill the patient's tumor cells.

As the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus positions itself as a world-class research facility, the “Mayo Clinic of the West,” the world is about to find that out. Researchers on the 230-acre campus in Aurora are the focus of the first national marketing campaign aimed at major TV, radio and digital outlets, as well as documentary-style videos on websites dedicated to showing off the innovative work.

The Colorado School of Public Health will receive at least $1 million to begin studying the health effects that toxic “forever chemicals” have had on 1,300 children and adults living in Security, Widefield and Fountain.

The research team was among six selected across the nation for the federally funded study — a first-of-its-kind effort to understand the diseases caused by exposure to perfluorinated compounds through drinking water.

“The problem on the provider side is that there are so many required vaccines to discuss and that it’s understandable that a vaccine that’s not routinely recommended would get overlooked or be considered a lower priority,” says Kempe, director of the Adult and Child Center for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.