School of Medicine News and Stories

A national search has ended for the next academic leader of medicine at Colorado's largest academic health care system.

As founder and chairman of Heart Institute of the Caribbean (HIC) Professor Madu brings a wealth of expertise and global recognition to this prestigious event.

Bucking a national downward trend, more people died from drug overdoses in Colorado from December 2022 to December 2023 than the previous one-year period – a sobering reminder that the crisis is still hammering the western states while showing signs of easing in the east.

Bird flu is spreading into unprecedented territory in the United States, infecting scores of cows at dairy farms in nine states and jumping to one farm worker — only the second confirmed case ever of a human getting infected by the H5N1 virus within the United States.