But in 2014, it was suggested that resveratrol may actually reduce the risk for cancer. This is because, although alcohol damages cells, “resveratrol kills damaged cells," says Robert Sclafani, professor emeritus from the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Clark says options for firearm storage at gun ranges and retailers is part of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative. It was spearheaded by Emmy Betz, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "It really grew out of many of us who are researchers, who are clinicians, who are educators, feeling like we wanted to do more," Betz said.
"Providing these services in primary care settings and keeping patients healthier may help decrease costly emergency and hospital services by preventing overdoses and severe infections that can come with injection drug use," says Josh Barocas, M.D., associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "Additionally, adopting harm-reduction kits in primary care settings is an act of compassion and would likely help vulnerable users feel more compelled to step forward when in need of help."
Kerry Peterson, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at the University of Colorado Anschutz College of Nursing, said the issues around suicide stem from several factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic that left many teenage girls feeling isolated. “There’s also a lot of social and cultural issues taking place in society today that teen girls have to worry about,” said Peterson.
“Sexually transmitted infections are an enormous, low-priority public health problem. And they’ve been a low-priority problem for decades, in spite of the fact that they are the most commonly reported kind of infectious disease,” said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., a retired health official who lectures at the Colorado School of Public Health.
Emily Hemendinger at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has studied how social media can impact eating disorders. "With eating disorders, genetics and temperament and family life kind of load that gun, and things like social media and society pull the trigger," Hemendinger said.
This new paper was led by principal investigator Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease doctor and associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Barocas and his colleagues focused on deaths related to drug use, which he said accounts for the “vast majority” of infections he’s seen in his career. “[Sweeps,] we predict, will contribute up to 25% of the deaths among this population over a 10-year period,” Barocas told us. “To put that a different way, it means our states and our cities are literally killing people with this.”
"Our research shows that these widespread practices that forcibly displace people are clearly impacting the health of this population, particularly when it comes to increasing their overdose risk, so much so that it actually decreases the life expectancy of the entire population," said co-author Dr. Josh Barocas, associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
April 14, 2023