CU Anschutz In The News

“I think historically there's always been a lot of mistrust and discrimination that's been faced by racial and ethnic minoritized individuals like Black patients, American Indian patients and Latino patients,” Dr. Lilia Cervantes, a program leader and associate professor in the department of medicine at CU Anschutz, said. “To reduce mistrust, to improve culturally responsive care, I think we need to diversify the health care workforce.”

OPTIMUM researchers are also studying the best ways “to engage people as partners in research—not just as participants but as the co-designers of studies,” said OPTIMUM co-leader Bethany Kwan, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

It’s unclear why transmission of the virus has increased in the summer, said Beth Carlton, an associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health. “We don’t fully understand why that is,” she said. “We also don’t know if those summer waves are slowly going to go away.”

Non-EoE EGIDs are rare chronic inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, estimated at less than 200,000 cases annually in the United States, with unknown long-term consequences, Glenn Furuta, MD, professor of pediatrics at University of Colorado School of Medicine and section head of gastroenterology at the Children's Hospital, Aurora, Colorado, told Medscape Medical News.

"This digital biomarker essentially enables any simple EEG headband device to be used as a fitness tracker for brain health," says Brice McConnell, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and study senior author. "Demonstrating how we can assess digital biomarkers for early indications of disease using accessible and scalable headband devices in a home setting is a huge advancement in catching and mitigating Alzheimer's disease at the earliest stages."

The findings "are in agreement with American Diabetes Association Standards of Care, and recent international consensus recommending CGM and AID for most people with type 1 diabetes, and early initiation of diabetes technology from the onset of type 1 diabetes," write Kagan E. Karakus, MD, of the Barbara Davis Center, and colleagues in the article, which was published online in Diabetes Care.

After tracking calorie-control dieters and intermittent fasters for three months, both had significantly improved microbiome diversity, said study author Maggie Stanislawski, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Colorado.

Joshua Gowin at the University of Colorado Denver – Anschutz Medical Campus also said, “People are getting back out there and living life again. They are going to weddings, having bachelor parties. Something like that could certainly be associated with increases in binge drinking.”