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CBS4 Denver

Denver to host experts to talk medical marijuana and Parkinson’s disease

news outletCBS4 Denver
Publish DateMarch 05, 2019

Dr. Benzi Kluger is Garner’s doctor at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. Kluger is co-chair of the conference and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In a news release Kluger said, “Having worked as a clinician for the past decade in Colorado, a state at the forefront of medical marijuana use, it is clear that people with PD and their families are intensely interested in the potential of marijuana and cannabinoids in helping manage symptoms and other aspects of their disease. To date, there is more hype than actual data to provide meaningful clinical information to patients with PD.”

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9News

Increased access to overdose-reversal drug saves hundreds in Colorado

news outlet9News
Publish DateMarch 04, 2019

This is happening more frequently, as 189 departments across the state are now trained and equipped with this drug that helps overdosed patients start breathing properly again. “I just think that's one of the best success stories we can have,” said Rob Valuck, Ph.D., professor of pharmacy at the University of Colorado. “In the past, there's nothing much they can do except hope and wait. He said hundreds of officers who have used naloxone on dying patients since access was expanded. A new app called OpiRescue tracks overdose reversals, but only the ones that are reported to the app. More than 800 have been reported since the app went live two years ago, about the same time the state started receiving federal grants to purchase naloxone kits.

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FOX News

Sleeping in on weekends causes weight gain risks, research shows

news outletFOX News
Publish DateMarch 03, 2019

Our findings suggest that the common behavior of burning the candle during the week and trying to make up for it on the weekend is not an effective health strategy,” said senior author Kenneth Wright, an integrative physiology professor and director of the Sleep and Chronobiology Lab at the University of Colorado (CU). Wright and his colleagues monitored the food intake, light exposure and sleep of 36 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 39 years old for two weeks at the Clinical Translational Research Center at CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

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U.S. News & World Report

The danger of diabetic ketoacidosis

news outletU.S. News & World Report
Publish DateMarch 01, 2019

DKA is highly dangerous for children, says Dr. Arleta Rewers, an associate professor of pediatrics-emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a physician at Children's Hospital Colorado. "About 50 percent of kids who have DKA are admitted to the ICU," she says. "They require very extensive treatment with fluids and insulin."

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The Colorado Sun

Colorado is set to ban vaping where smoking is already prohibited, following more than a dozen other states

news outletThe Colorado Sun
Publish DateFebruary 27, 2019

Ashley Brooks-Russell, an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health studying adolescent substance use, called the policy an “essential update” to the state’s ban on indoor smoking, which was passed more than a decade ago. “If we allow e-cigarettes to be used in public places, it falsely communicates that products are different from cigarettes or other tobacco products,” said Brooks-Russell, who also directs the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. “It reinforces the mistaken idea that these products are safe and acceptable for our youth to use.”

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Fox 31 | Channel 2

Local nurse’s aide accused of stealing dying patients’ meds loses license, gets convicted

news outletFox 31 | Channel 2
Publish DateFebruary 27, 2019

“For someone to highjack, that is obviously terrible!” noted Rob Valluck, a University of Colorado pharmacy professor and director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Abuse Prevention during a FOX31 television interview. Valluck told us at-risk patients are easy (although relatively rare) targets for unscrupulous medical professionals like Martinek. “It’s a huge concern because that person may be receiving this medication for severe pain – could be an end-of-life issue or cancer and we don’t want to be denied the pain medication that they need and deserve and have legally obtained,” Valluck said.

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CNN

How Hanoi went from being bombed by Washington to hosting Trump-Kim summit

news outletCNN
Publish DateFebruary 26, 2019

Dr. Carl Bartecchi of the University of Colorado School of Medicine visits the hospital twice a year for two or three weeks at a time to teach students. He’s been going since 1997, when much of the city was very different. “You’d drive into town, and it used to be all rice fields. You’d see water buffalo, people working there,” Bartecchi said. “Now there’s a lot of buildings going up there and palm trees line the way. There are brand new bridges going into town and along the way, you see some new high-rise buildings.”

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Consumer Affairs

Young adult cancer survivors faced with issues related to work and money

news outletConsumer Affairs
Publish DateFebruary 26, 2019

Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus recently found that young adult cancer survivors often struggle with issues surrounding debt and work. "This project combined the expertise of researchers with diverse training from major cancer centers throughout the U.S. in a team-science approach, which made it possible to gather and explore data from adolescent and young adult cancer survivors in new ways,” said researcher Betsy Risendal, PhD. “As a result, this is among the first and largest studies to examine the impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment on work-related outcomes in this important understudied group of survivors.”

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