CU Anschutz In The News

“I’m a type 1 diabetic for 43 years, and I have foot issues,” she said. Dana Davis was 7 years old when she was diagnosed. Her father was billionaire Marvin Davis. Her mother founded the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes. Davis was a teacher-turned-shoe entrepreneur. But in 2015, she walked away from the business to head the Children’s Diabetes Foundation. “There’s hundreds of shoes,” she said. “What do you do with them?” Davis opted to donate them. The shoes were packed, stacked and trucked to Wheat Ridge. They were deposited in the warehouse of Soles4Souls.

“A good reason that Colorado does pretty well is that it’s a pretty healthy place,” said Dr. Myles Cockburn, co-leader of the University of Colorado Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention and Control Program, which released the Colorado cancer data.

David Bruton played 108 games in the NFL. He is now in the physical therapy program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the U.S. only after cardiovascular disease. The good news is, over the last 25 years we have seen a 31 percent drop in cancer deaths here in Colorado. Dr. Ross Camidge, a world-renowned lung cancer specialist from the University of Colorado Cancer Center at CU Anschutz discusses recent advances in cancer care.

It turns out that smelly condition has a name: high altitude flatus expulsion, or HAFE. Its discoverers—the pioneers of alpine flatulence—are Dr. Paul Auerbach, Redlich Family Professor Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a founder of the Wilderness Medical Society, and Dr. York Miller, professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is looking to identify how cannabis use impacts different kinds of users in unique ways. Anschutz medical toxicologist Dr. Michael Kosnett will test 90 people — those who use cannabis everyday, those who do so one or twice a week, and those who never — at a small brick house in Aurora. Since subjects imbibe on-site for the experiment, testing off-campus was essential.

Dr. John Tentler says it's more like false hope. Tentler is an associate director of education at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. In an oversimplified description of his job, he's also working on producing drugs to fight cancer. He says this report is suspect, especially without any peer-reviewed data. “I checked on their website; they haven’t published anything yet that I can see that would be referring to this type of anti-cancer drug,” Tentler said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends breastfeeding mothers avoid alcohol but notes that an occasional or celebratory standard size drink (12 oz. of 5 percent beer) won’t be harmful to the baby. Because alcohol does enter breast milk within 30-60 minutes, the CDC recommends waiting a minimum of two hours after drinking before breastfeeding. Alcohol from three drinks will still be detected in breast milk six to eight hours later, and pumping and discarding the milk during that time window (known as “pumping and dumping”) won’t change that. Alexandra H. Antonioli, Ph.D., is completing a combined M.D./Ph.D. training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is currently working with the ABC News Medical Unit.