Article by David Higgins is a research fellow and instructor in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: I am a pediatrician and preventive medicine physician, and I have anxiously watched measles cases rise worldwide while vaccination rates have dropped since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic due to disruptions in vaccine access and the spread of vaccine misinformation.
Robert Page, a clinical pharmacist who specializes in heart disease at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, is worried about the emerging connections between marijuana consumption and the heart. Page was the lead author of a comprehensive statement on cannabis released by the American Heart Association in 2020. “I think we’re beginning to see the same things we saw with smoking cigarettes back in the ’50s and ’60s — that this is a signal,” Page said. “I feel like we’re repeating history.”
The study’s findings mirror other research that has found daily use of marijuana is linked to an increase in coronary heart disease, heart attack and stroke, said Robert Page II, a professor of clinical pharmacy and physical medicine at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Aurora, Colorado
His mentor in Anchorage used to say, “Frostbite January, Amputation July,” remembered Dr. Hackett, clinical professor at the Altitude Research Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “For centuries, there was nothing else to do.”
Millions of people deal with acne, but those who suffer from cystic acne know how difficult it is to treat compared to ordinary pimples. As its name suggests, cystic acne is a severe form of acne that results in large, pus-filled cysts forming underneath the skin’s surface, which usually makes them more painful than normal bumps and, depending on the severity, can cause scarring, says Dr. Emma Weiss, a board-certified dermatologist and assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Conversation article authored by William Cornwell, MD, associate professor of cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
As an All of Us scholar, Perez was paired with Rachel Everhart, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, in Fall 2023. Under Everhart’s guidance, Perez chose to pursue a research project on an understudied topic: women of color who struggle with endometriosis, a disease that causes severe pelvic pain, heavy bleeding during menstruation and issues becoming pregnant.
The data mirror what researchers at CU Anschutz have seen. “I think they demonstrate what we have heard individually from patients in the clinic of the last four years and highlight the larger societal impact for long COVID,” said Dr. Sarah Jolley, a researcher with CU Anshutz and medical director of the UCHealth Post-COVID Clinic.
