“This is really a completely different approach than anything that has been tried before,” said Huntington Potter, director of the Rocky Mountain center, which is part of the University of Colorado. “It is one approach of many, and we’re hopeful. But science will tell.”
Now a sculpture commemorating the efforts to vaccinate all people against the polio virus, has been dedicated at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
Dr. Ben Easter of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus helps students train for medical emergencies in space, in this case on a simulated Mars base deep in the Utah desert.
Ian Overton, 34, attempted to summit Nanga Parbat a couple of years ago, but fell ill along the way. That experience inspired Overton to go back to school. In fact, he graduated from University of Colorado College of Nursing this past May and is currently working as a nurse in the burn unit at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood.
“If a woman gets diagnosed under the age of 45 for reasons that are not completely clear she will have a higher likelihood of that breast cancer returning later in life as metastatic or spread breast cancer. That goes from something curable to something treatable but not curable by most standards today,” said Dr. Virginia Borges of the CU Cancer Center. “We’ve also identified that women who are diagnosed within 10 years of their last child birth equally face an increased risk that their cancers will show up again in their bodies after they’ve gone through their treatment.”
Ben Honigman is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he’s been studying the effect of altitude on health since the late 1980s. He’s looked at cardiovascular disease and pulmonary effects at high elevations, and began to investigate suicide when he saw Renshaw’s paper first come out. He’s not convinced by their findings. He said that the research that's been done so far is based on observational data, which can’t provide causality—or hard proof that altitude causes depression.
“That’s what’s always made this difficult, since we’re not doing this full-time,” said Vogl, whose day job is as executive director of National Mental Health Innovation Center on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. “We could change our model to be more like RiffTrax kind of thing, but they already occupy that space.” Even with a better model, it’s is not an easy space to be in, Murphy said. Sensitive filmmakers and distributors often jealously guard their catalogs from movie-mockers, unaware of the new life it can give a film (see revivals of “The Room” or “Miami Connection”).
“I’m particularly interested in helping LGBTQ individuals, and particularly the older population, just given the disparities they face,” said Carey Candrian, PhD, co-director of the Next 50 Initiative with Dr. Hillary Lum of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “Older LGBTQ individuals are more likely to go back into the closet, and many are living in poverty and less likely to have kids, be married, or have caregivers. They are more likely to live alone and be lonely.” The Next 50 Initiative is a grant initiative that helps with advanced care planning for LGBTQ and other hi-risk elders. The Denver Hospice and the CU School of Medicine are working together under this umbrella to try and make sure queer elders have the help they need.
