"The attorney was representing the daughters of an elderly gentleman who had moved from the East Coast to Colorado to be closer to them," said Victoroff, who teaches bioethics in the MBA program at the University of Denver and also practices at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
With COVID-19 in the mix, a typical virus season now is higher-risk than one before the pandemic, said Beth Carlton, associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health. “There is hope that (COVID-19) declines to have an impact akin to flu, but that’s still a big impact,” she said.
Study author Dr. Brice McConnell, PhD, assistant professor of neurology and Director of the Sleep Research Program at the University of Colorado Alzheimer’s and Cognition Center, offered some more explanation on the method they used: “Our method focuses on detecting brainwave patterns that occur during memory processing functions in deep sleep and using these brainwaves to understand whether there are problems in the brain’s memory components.”
Jack Comstock, MD, graduate of the CU School of Medicine, kept a diary for three years, from late 1941 to early 1945. In that diary is a powerful tale of survival, compassion, and hope: the only known real-time journal of a POW doctor in World War II. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in a five-part series. It has been adapted, with minimal changes for readability, for The Colorado Magazine.
“We need to see what’s going on to make sure we’re not doing more harm than good,” said Jason Gibbons, a health economist at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. “We’re concerned that it’s not working as intended, and it’s harming patients.”
Ned Calonge, who is the associate dean for public health practice of the Colorado School of Public Health and co-authored the national academies’ report, said that taking proactive measures in communities with known high exposure, such as among firefighters and military service members and their families who lived on bases, is particularly important. “It depends on how much different states have paid attention to it,” Calonge said. “I wouldn’t say that we’ve advanced very far in terms of clinician education in the area of the PFAS exposure.”
Kelly Anderson, PhD, MPP, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Aurora, said that what the study found “was consistent with my expectations and what we hear anecdotally from clinicians and patients.”
However, most studies on seizures, nausea and pain have investigated the impact of carefully made synthetic cannabis or extracts, said clinical pharmacologist Robert Page II, who chaired the medical writing group for the American Heart Association’s 2020 scientific statement on marijuana. Page was also not involved in the study.
