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The New York Times

E.P.A. Plans to Get Thousands of Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math

news outletThe New York Times
Publish DateMay 20, 2019

Jonathan M. Samet, a pulmonary disease specialist who is dean of the Colorado School of Public Health, said the most recent studies showed negative health effects well below the 12-microgram standard. “It’s not a hard stop where we can say ‘below that, air is safe.’ That would not be supported by the scientific evidence,” Dr. Samet said. “It would be very nice for public health if things worked that way, but they don’t seem to.”

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The Colorado Sun

With Denver’s vote on magic mushrooms, will Colorado anchor a psychedelic medicine revolution?

news outletThe Colorado Sun
Publish DateMay 20, 2019

David Kroll, a professor at the University of Colorado’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy, has spent 35 years studying drugs from nature — like psilocybin mushrooms and other naturally occurring chemicals — that he says have given rise to 25% of all prescription drugs and 65% of all the country’s over-the-counter medications. Kroll said the growing population of patients who are not responding to traditional treatments for depression, anxiety, PTSD and substance abuse has opened the door to further investigation of any chemicals that may deliver relief.

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9News

From brain injury to championship podium

news outlet9News
Publish DateMay 20, 2019

Lauren De Crescenzo won the USA Collegiate National Time Trial Championship in Augusta, Georgia after sustaining a traumatic brain injury from a bike crash a few years earlier. On Thursday, `The Comeback Kid’ will graduate from the Colorado School of Public Health at CU Anschutz. Her Master’s thesis dealt with traumatic brain injury.

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The Guardian

Chronic kidney disease associated with high heat, toxins, infections

news outletThe Guardian
Publish DateMay 20, 2019

A mysterious epidemic of chronic kidney disease among agricultural workers and manual laborers may be caused by a combination of increasingly hot temperatures, toxins and infections, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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The Denver Post

Run, hide or fight? Heroism during STEM School shooting praised, but some worry coverage will push kids to put themselves in harm’s way

news outletThe Denver Post
Publish DateMay 17, 2019

“We don’t want any kid, certainly some of the younger kids, thinking this is what they have to do,” said Dr. Steven Berkowitz, a visiting professor in psychiatry at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. Berkowitz said stories of heroism can put additional pressure on children and teenagers in what is already a stressful situation, including making youths feel like they are responsible and need to act “heroically” — and making students who didn’t fight back feel guilty.

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Colorado Politics

Polis signs new laws for mental health services

news outletColorado Politics
Publish DateMay 17, 2019

Thursday at a ceremony at Children's Hospital Colorado on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Polis signed Senate Bill 195 to improve the state’s behavioral health system for kids.

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9News

Is it harmful to call the students who tackled the shooter at STEM heroes?

news outlet9News
Publish DateMay 16, 2019

Psychologist Dr. Steven Berkowitz joins us today to talk about kid heroes. There is some worry, from the psychology community, about calling kids like Kendrick Castillo heroes.

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The Denver Post

Obesity surgery benefits may be bigger for teens than adults, CU researchers find

news outletThe Denver Post
Publish DateMay 16, 2019

Researchers led by Dr. Thomas Inge at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus wanted to know whether it’s better or safer to have it in mid-life, the most common time now, or sooner before many of those other health problems appear or do much harm.

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