The experts are Scott Cypers, director of stress and anxiety programs at the Helen and Arthur E Johnson Depression Center at University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, and Aaron Ragon, an adjunct professor at University of Denver and former high school counselor in Douglas County.
In a University of Colorado School of Medicine study, researchers tracked nearly 3,000 people with vitiligo, an autoimmune disease in which a person’s immune system attacks healthy pigment cells and causes skin blotches.
“People and communities have had significant exposure to these chemicals. If they can ID that they are in an area of significant exposure, they should seek testing through their usual source of care,” says Ned Calonge, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health in Aurora who chaired the committee that wrote the National Academies report.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists 125 items with medical shortages, ranging from an asthma drug to vials of sterile water at certain sizes. The ones that affect the most people are shortages of Adderall, which treats attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and the antibiotic amoxicillin, said Dr. Kelsey Schwander, a clinical pharmacist at the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus.
Christopher Knoepke, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who has studied red flag laws both in Colorado and nationwide, worries the state law is a valuable tool that is being underutilized. He said his research found that in its first year there were 109 ERPO petitions filed in Colorado. In 2021 there were 144, and as of Aug. 1 of this year there have been 69.
Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado, sought to measure the effect that an online decision aid could have on easing stress and building knowledge about when driving is no longer safe.
“Any time you have a law, it’s only as good and effective as how it’s used,” said Dr. Emmy Betz, a physician and professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health who studies ways to prevent gun violence.
When Dr. Jay Lemery gives presentations on climate and health, one of his slides has two pictures with an arrow between them: one with a polar bear and an iceberg, and another with a kid and an inhaler. “This is the transition we’re talking about,” he says. Lemery, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and co-founder of the university’s Climate & Health Program, sees the growing trend of climate change impacting human health.
