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Colorado Public Radio

Doctor in Space: CU’s Boulder and School of Medicine campus’ will offer a joint degree program to send MDs to infinity and beyond

news outletColorado Public Radio
Publish DateSeptember 01, 2022

Dr. Arian Anderson, a physician who works with NASA to mitigate human medical risk in space, said with the growth of space travel, there comes a need for people aside from engineers to put on spacesuits.

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Washington Post

Congress wants more red-flag laws. But GOP states, gun groups resist.

news outletWashington Post
Publish DateJuly 26, 2022

Research by the Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the Colorado School of Public Health found 85 percent of protection orders granted by judges were filed by law enforcement.

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Medscape

COVID Childcare Woes Increased Stress in Healthcare Workers: Study

news outletMedscape
Publish DateJuly 26, 2022

The survey was conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who collected data from 58,408 healthcare workers in 208 organizations between April and December 2020. Respondents were asked, "Due to…COVID-19, I am experiencing concerns about childcare," and subsequently assessed their CCS on a scale of 1, "not at all," to 4, "a great extent," with a score of 3 or 4 representing high CCS.

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CNBC

The danger of skipping your Covid booster is rising—and more than 100 million Americans are at risk

news outletCNBC
Publish DateJuly 26, 2022

Booster shots essentially amplify those same benefits, says Ross Kedl, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He says booster-induced protection against severe illness holds up over time against every known Covid variant and subvariant, including BA.5.

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CBS4 Denver

988 Crisis Line Goes Live

news outletCBS4 Denver
Publish DateJuly 26, 2022

Researcher and Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Colorado Anschutz Campus Dr. Emmy Betz weighed in, saying surprisingly, Colorado has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, ranked 7th. This new tool will help combat that. 

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NBC News

What is parechovirus? Signs, symptoms and risk factors of the virus infecting babies across the country

news outletNBC News
Publish DateJuly 26, 2022

“We noticed a few months ago reports starting to pop up throughout the country and now it appears that there’s widespread circulation of parechoviruses throughout the country,” said Dr. Kevin Messacar, a pediatric infectious disease physician and researcher at Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado [School of Medicine].

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TIME

How Heat Waves Could Have Long-Term Impacts on Your Health

news outletTIME
Publish DateJuly 26, 2022

“While increased risk for heat stroke is an obvious manifestation of global warming, climate change is actually causing health problems today, in both direct and indirect ways,” says Richard J. Johnson, a medical professor and researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and one of the world’s foremost experts on the intersection of heat stress and kidney disease.

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Denver Gazette

'Colorado's Dr. Fauci' reflects on COVID and the state of public health

news outletDenver Gazette
Publish DateJuly 26, 2022

Nearly half of Jon Samet's tenure as the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health has been spent battling COVID-19, from modeling the virus's spread to advising state and local leaders; he even found time to keep a regular blog with his thoughts on the situation.

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