CU Anschutz In The News

FOX31's Kim Posey spoke with mental health experts about how to get help during the holiday season.

CU Dr Angelo D’Alessandro on new stem cell therapy for Multiple Sclerosis

“This breakthrough approach turned out not only to be safe but also promising, with respect to the effects observed through medical exams and, as data generated in our lab suggest, molecular markers of neuroinflammation," said Angelo D’Alessandro, a professor at the Univerisity of Colorado’s School of Medicine.

The lab of Angelo D’Alessandro, PhD, a professor at the CU School of Medicine, had already been working with Cambridge to understand the metabolic support of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis, with a special focus on the role of metabolic signals driving inflammatory events that make immune cells in the brain turn against neurons.

Shoveling snow isn’t just winter’s most tedious task; it’s also tailor-made for throwing out your back. To help keep you on the slopes and off the heating pad, Chad Singleton, a personal fitness trainer with CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, explains how to turn the chore into a snow day.

Matthew Woodward, a fellow at CU Anschutz’s Movement Disorders Center, said the results of their studies to date — looking at outcomes like balance improvement, movement and mood — show no negative results. The results need to be tested on a larger population to be statistically significant, Woodward said, but the research — this first study focuses solely on Parkinson’s disease — looks promising.

Sarit Polsky, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Barbara David Center for Childhood Diabetes and Adult Clinic at the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, described how to use a commercially available system — off label — without a pregnancy-specific algorithm.

Hundreds of homeless metro Denver residents end up in hospitals for emergency treatment of hypothermia and frostbite, according to Dr. Joshua Barocas, an internal medicine and infectious disease physician at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus who sees homeless patients at the Denver Health Medical Center. At one metro Denver hospital where an informal study was done during a cold month last winter, 49 patients were treated for hypothermia and frostbite, Barocas said.