A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology describes an important step in the activation of the immune system against nanoparticles. The finding may allow researchers and eventually doctors to cloak nanoparticles against the immune system, allowing these particles to go about their therapeutic business.
"Self-care is one’s action is around our physical, emotional, relational, perhaps professional, educational, and, for some people, spiritual well-being that reflects the way that we take care of ourselves on the most fundamental levels," says Helen L. Coons, PhD, a clinical health psychologist at the specializing in women’s behavioral health and wellness at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry in Aurora, Colorado.
Moving to a new city on your own is a tough situation. It’s something Morkos Henen has done many times. “I am originally Egyptian, but I have been everywhere in the world,” Morkos said. “I did my PhD in Vienna, Austria. Then I moved for a post-doc in France. Then I came to the United States: San Antonio, Pittsburgh and then from Pittsburgh to here.” Morkos has lived in Denver for about a year and a half. He’s a staff scientist at CU Anschutz Medical Campus doing research in molecular genetics. It’s an incredibly demanding job which keeps Morkos busy most of the time. He loves his work, and the people he works with, but on New Year’s Eve he took some time for himself to check out the Blossoms of Light display at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
The worst part of Joshua’s treatment was over, but he still had a course of radiation to go before the family would learn whether his cancer had been driven into remission. On Sept. 24, he sat on a hospital bed at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus oncology center, in Aurora, waiting for it to begin. A month out from the end of chemo, his skull was shadowed with new hair, and his eyebrows and lashes had started to grow back.“He’s my little peach,” says Joseph, scrubbing his son’s head playfully. The radiation is intended as a second line of attack against any cancer tissue that remains. If the disease can be forced into remission, and stays that way for more than a few years, odds are it won’t recur, says Joshua’s radiation oncologist, Dr. Brian Kavanagh.
Students from the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy helped give free flu shots at the National Western Stock Show Saturday. The shots came just as the number of diagnosed cases of influenza are on the rise in Colorado. One exhibitor was especially grateful. “She was very good, didn’t even hurt.”
You're lying down and you turn you head slightly. Then it hits. The room spins uncontrollably for what may feel like forever but could be as short as 30 seconds. The sensation is vertigo, and it affects millions of people. One of those people is Dr. Carol Foster, who specializes in vertigo at the University of Colorado's School of Medicine. She’s also the author of “Overcoming Positional Vertigo," which shares her findings. Foster talked to Colorado Matters about the common phenomena. Vertigo happens when crystals found in the ear and sense gravity fall out of place and create the disorienting illusion of spinning.
"We recognize there are many different ways to approach the problem of opioid use disorder, this focuses on treatment and how to increase the capacity in rural practices and communities to be able to provide treatment because it's like a barren, barren, landscape right now," said Linda Zittleman, co-director of the High Plains Research Network. HPRN, based at the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, created the study.
According to Dr. Robert P. Dellavalle, professor of dermatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, “Acne is one of the most debilitating diseases in dermatology. It’s not a killer, but it can scar people literally and psychologically. If treatment can cure acne and prevent scarring, it may prevent the need for psychological services, which can be hard to come by.”
