CU Anschutz In The News

Kelly Sullivan, a molecular biologist at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus who was not involved in the work, agrees that the data showing USP18 in the blood cells aren’t the most compelling, but notes that low levels of a protein don’t preclude it from having a large effect. He says that the data comparing DS and healthy blood cells do validate the authors’ claim that the DS cells are partially desensitized.

John Iguidbashian, M.D., from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, and colleagues used data from the United Network for Organ Sharing to evaluate if the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased waiting list times among pediatric U.S. HT recipients.

A study published in 2017 indicates that when laws like Jake's Law are passed, there is an increase in the number of concussions that are reported. About 2 1/2 years after traumatic brain injury laws are passed, rates of recurrent concussions significantly decline, according to the Colorado School of Public Health.

The latest report from the team, released Thursday, Oct. 6, showed hospitalizations declining slowly over the next 12 weeks, with the caveat that a new variant could throw that off. It’s also possible that the number of severe illnesses will remain essentially on a plateau, said Bailey Fosdick, a member of the team and associate professor of biostatistics and informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health. “Over the next 12 weeks, we’re pretty confident things will stay low,” she said.

The state's health department and Colorado School of Public Health published an updated statewide COVID modeling report earlier this month, which shows a variety of scenarios for the remainder of the year, including hospitalizations rising "steeply" by December if a new variant arrived in late September.

SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations indicate a slow decline in infections statewide but increases in some regions, for example, and the state’s positivity rate has plateaued above 5%, modelers from the Colorado School of Public Health wrote in their latest report, dated Oct. 6.

“It’s never easy for a young athlete to learn that they have a serious condition that may require  surgery,” said Sumeet Garg, MD, pediatric spine surgeon at Children’s Hospital Colorado and Associate Professor of Orthopedics at University of Colorado. “Safe return to sports and other physical activities has become commonplace among patients with idiopathic scoliosis who undergo spine fusion surgery. However, before this study there was no prospective data regarding timing for safely returning to sport.”

Dr. Nanette Santoro, professor and E. Stewart Taylor Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, says there are lots of factors at play as to why this could be. She said: ‘My educated guess is that a lot of the differences have their basis in lifestyle, SES (socioeconomic status), and other stressors such as systemic racism and their long-term consequences.’