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National Healthcare Decisions Day Highlights Importance of Advance Care Planning

One of life’s greatest certainties is its uncertainty – that the unexpected, unplanned, and unpredicted may happen and we do the best we can to handle it.


Author Rachel Sauer | Publish Date April 16, 2023
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Education    Community    Students    Advocacy    CU Medicine Today

New Diploma Program Training Clinicians as Leaders in Climate Medicine

The impacts of climate change on human health are among the most profound and far-reaching issues in health care. Global ecosystems are under such stress that the effects of climate change on human health grow more widespread and damaging by the day.


Author Rachel Sauer | Publish Date August 15, 2022
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White Coats for Black Lives Holds Annual Die-In to Emphasize Need for Action in Addressing Racism

The wind kicked up as soon as everyone “died,” cold and fierce around the dozens of students, faculty members, and staff members lying on the concrete and browning grass.


Author Rachel Sauer | Publish Date October 27, 2021
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Education    Community    Advocacy

Climate Fellow Working to Support Physicians in Becoming Climate Advocates

It began with a three-week plastic-free challenge that changed the course of Bhargavi Chekuri’s medical career path. The challenge was to go three weeks without the ease and convenience of plastic bags, plastic wrapping, and all the other plastics that make their way into daily life. 


Author Rachel Sauer | Publish Date September 23, 2021
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Hospitals struggle to serve growing number of children in need of intensive mental health treatment

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Publish DateJuly 25, 2024

In Colorado and across the nation, emergency departments at pediatric hospitals are overflowing with kids who need intensive mental health treatment.

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Colorado kidney donor set to compete in her 12th Ironman competition

news outlet9News
Publish DateJuly 23, 2024

A little more than a month after the Olympics wrap up, women triathletes will be heading to the south of France for another competition on the global stage.

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Healthy Debate

Medical education’s next frontier: Space

news outletHealthy Debate
Publish DateJuly 18, 2024

In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. With every kilometre he ascended, he pushed the boundaries of human achievement and catalyzed a surge of interest in exploration, research, development – and medical innovation.

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Medscape

As GLP-1 Demand Goes Up, Access and Coverage Go Down

news outletMedscape
Publish DateJuly 18, 2024

Experts debating the pressing issue of how to prioritize patients in the increasingly common scenario of loss of access or insurance coverage for anti-obesity glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist drugs argued that comorbidities and obesity severity should strongly warrant continued coverage — while offering key strategies for getting and retaining approval from payers.

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