The Sun Bus drives dermatologists around Colorado offering free skin cancer checks
The high altitude, lots of sunny days and a love of outdoor recreation puts many Coloradans at risk.
How many people did we save with social distancing and COVID vaccines? CU researchers say nearly a million
Before the first COVID-19 vaccine became available, Americans radically changed their behavior to avoid getting the virus by social distancing and wearing masks.
Inpatient substance treatment centers can be life-saving for pregnant people, but there aren’t enough facilities
There are only seven inpatient treatment centers for Medicaid-eligible pregnant people in Colorado. Slots at all of them are scarce.
Colorado changed its definition of child abuse and introduced ‘Plans of Safe Care.’ The impact isn’t clear
Has a 2020 state law resulted in fewer separations of parents and newborns when substance use is involved?
As the opioid epidemic worsens in Colorado, pregnant and postpartum people are dying
The leading causes of death among pregnant and postpartum people in Colorado are now suicide and accidental drug overdose.
Does anybody care about COVID-19 anymore?
As the state prepares to stop reporting hospital admissions due to COVID, a state official wonders what’s next for the disease — and what lessons we have learned.
Despite improvements, Hispanic Coloradans are still more likely to face significant health disparities
Hispanic people in Colorado are more likely to die of preventable causes, be uninsured or forgo healthcare because of cost.
Drug overdose deaths continue to increase as state gets millions in opioid settlement funds
Colorado is set to receive more than $750 million in opioid settlement funds over the next 15 years as part of the largest national opioid settlement to date.
Colorado’s first American Red Cross blood donation center opens amid ongoing need for donors
The American Red Cross has plans to expand blood collection in the Colorado and Wyoming regions, but there are no definite plans yet.
As Colorado lawmakers work to expand abortion protections, pregnancy resource centers’ advertising under scrutiny
The centers say they educate people with unplanned pregnancies on options other than abortion, but legislators and activist groups say they mislead patients.
A Colorado mother and daughter share their abortion stories, 50 years apart
Less than a year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, pregnant people are once again traveling thousands of miles to seek abortion care.
Amidst seismic social media changes, making a new year’s resolution for your eyeballs
With Twitter in some tumult, we discuss emerging alternatives with CU Boulder computational social scientist Brian Keegan. He reminds people that, when it comes to social media, “your eyeballs are the product.” Keegan guides us towards making a new year’s resolution for screentime.
10 years of recreational cannabis research: What we’ve learned and what’s still unknown
Researchers have been studying legal cannabis’s impact on health, public safety and the economy, but there’s still so much more to learn.
Kaiser Permanente to offer abortion services in response to long Planned Parenthood wait times
Kaiser Permanente in Colorado is now offering expanded abortion services to its patients in response to long wait times at abortion clinics. In a statement, the healthcare provider said that […]
Out-of-state patients seeking abortions arrive in Colorado in record numbers
The state health department’s preliminary numbers for 2022 show the predicted influx of residents from states where abortion is illegal is underway, overwhelming Colorado providers
5 years into Colorado’s medical aid-in-dying programs, access is still an issue and researchers say educating doctors could help
Between 2017 and 2020, 554 patients were prescribed aid-in-dying medication to end their lives in a peaceful way.
