Dr. Joseph Sakai is an associate psychiatry professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and specializes in substance dependence. Although the drug and opioid crisis is a national public health emergency, Sakai said Colorado is seeing a big increase in meth overdoses and addiction.
As of Wednesday, wastewater from eight utilities showed increasing amounts of the virus; 19 showed decreases; and 27 had essentially stable virus levels. For the state as a whole, wastewater concentrations are trending down, said Bailey Fosdick, an associate professor of biostatistics and informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health.
The CDC-funded study was conducted by Matthew F. Daley, MD, a pediatrician and senior clinician investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research and associate professor in the department of pediatrics at University of Colorado School of Medicine, and colleagues.
Scientists have found microplastics in donor blood and in the lungs of surgical patients. Although their effect on health isn't yet clear, some physicians have suggested that they cause excess inflammation, allergic reactions and cell death. Zhang and his team are also working with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to further understand the impact of microplastics on people.
CU Anschutz mental health expert who has treated victims, volunteers and first responders following natural disasters Ian Stanley says it’s important to know the signs. With thousands of Colorado first responders and volunteers heading across the country to lend a hand. “First responders’ instinct is going to be to help other people. It’s in their training, it’s in their character, and it’s really important they take stock of their own stress levels and mental health and lean on each other for support,” Stanley said.
Lina Patel, PsyD, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and member of the Crnic Institute research team says, “DSRD is often described as a condition whereby a person withdraws into their own inner world. Many common daily activities are suddenly disrupted, such as going to the bathroom, eating, communicating with others – it all goes away suddenly and they lose a lot of the skills they’ve gained over the course of their life.”
"First responders are familiar with and trained for these high stakes, high-intensity operations," said Dr. Ian Stanley, an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and psychological health lead for the CU Anschutz Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield (COMBAT) Research.
“We collected patient-reported outcome surveys in patients with breast cancer since 2019 and noted that of the four domains of quality of life we measure, sexual well-being was the lowest when we first saw women with breast cancer,” Sarah Tevis, MD, assistant professor of surgical oncology at University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio.
