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CU Summit Focuses on Strategies for Addressing Suicide by Firearm Among Active-Duty Military Servicemembers

An important step in addressing the growing crisis of suicide by firearm among active-duty military servicemembers involves asking not only why these deaths are happening, but how.


Author Rachel Sauer | Publish Date June 09, 2022
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Patient Care    Community    CU Medicine Today    COMBAT    Global Trauma Network

Improving Trauma Care in South Africa

A research-based training program for South African paramedics led by the University of Colorado School of Medicine is improving South African trauma care while also identifying innovations that U.S. military combat medics could use to treat battlefield wounds.


Author Mark Couch | Publish Date October 12, 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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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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