Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have discovered that a unique bacteria found in the gut could be responsible for triggering rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in people already at risk for the autoimmune disease.
“There was a labor and delivery nurse who flat out told me that I would not be hired just because I’m a man!” he exclaimed. Alvarez works at Denver Health and is also a student in the University of Colorado College of Nursing’s nurse-midwifery program and said, at this point, he’s used to being the only male nurse in the room. “There are just not a lot of men in this profession, so the first question people ask me is 'Why you, as a man, would want to be in this field?'” said Alvarez. “My first response is that wanting to take care of people has nothing to do with your gender.”
It also offered a health survey, done in coordination with researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health, that showed people living closer to well pads reported higher incidences of respiratory problems and other health issues.
In the following Q&A, Joel Stoddard, MD, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, explains where our fears come from and how the new research and mathematical modeling will help strengthen exposure therapy, based on the individual patient's experience. He also explains how the research was made possible by strong collaboration across two University of Colorado campuses with Sarah Kennedy, Ph.D., and Sam Paskewitz, Ph.D., at CU Anschutz and Matt Jones, Ph.D., at CU Boulder.
"Overexpressing KIF11 in mice did not affect the amyloid levels in the brain," said the study's co-senior author Huntington Potter, Ph.D., professor of neurology and director of the University of Colorado Alzheimer's and Cognition Center and of Alzheimer's research at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "Yet they were still cognitively normal despite the plaques. This is one of the best indications that you can maintain cognition without getting rid of the plaques."
"It's good to have a vaccine on board like Novavax because it's another option for those that might have contraindications to the other vaccine platforms," Ross Kedl, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in an email in June. "Some have allergic reactions or more rare concerns like blood clots."
Elizabeth Carlton, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist and associate professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, says it’s certainly possible we’ll see a winter wave of not just an uptick in COVID infections, but also in hospitalizations and deaths.
Led by biomedical data scientist Gregory Way, PhD, MS, the study showcases that by using these two data types simultaneously, scientists can measure fundamentally different aspects of the drug’s biology. “We believe these two popular methods can be used to our advantage in designing drugs that address the full complexity of biology,” said Way, who is an assistant professor in biomedical informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
