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Feb 18, 2021
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Healio
Column by Rocio Pereira, chief of endocrinology at Denver Health, associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a former chair of the Endocrine Society Committee on Diversity and Inclusion: “To bring about significant change in the endocrine workforce, blind hiring/selection practices would need to be applied at every stage in the workforce development pipeline, starting from undergraduate and medical school training, through junior faculty and promotion to senior leadership.”
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Feb 23, 2021
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HealthDay
That thought was echoed by Robert Eckel, past president of the American Heart Association and immediate past president of medicine and science with the American Diabetes Association and a professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Colorado. “This trial was not [designed] to assess safety of testosterone,” he noted, leaving the question of whether taking testosterone replacement therapy might actually pose a heart risk unanswered.
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Feb 19, 2021
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Pharmacy Times
“It was surprising to see that more than 5% weight loss at 2 years was associated with poorer distant disease-free survival,” said Anthony D. Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines Panel for Breast Cancer, in the press release.
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Feb 19, 2021
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News-Review (Petoskey, Mich.)
“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” senior author David Kao said in a news release. Kao is an assistant professor of cardiology and medical director at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Feb 23, 2021
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Men's Health
“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” summarised the author of the study David Kao [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Feb 18, 2021
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The New York Times
“Usually, researchers pick things they suspect would be risk factors for heart failure — smoking, for example — and then look at smokers versus nonsmokers,” said the senior author, David P. Kao, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado. “But machine learning identifies variables that are predictive of either increased or decreased risk, but that you haven’t necessarily thought of.”
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Feb 24, 2021
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Denver Post
“I’ve never seen flu this low,” said Larissa Pisney, medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “This is certainly unprecedented.”
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Feb 19, 2021
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CBS4
“We think less frequently than the flu and so I don’t know whether every year or every five years, but there’s probably going to be some sort of revaccination effort for COVID-19,” said David Beuther, associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine].
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Feb 24, 2021
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Fox 31
Despite a lack of hard data on the effects of the vaccine on long haulers, Anuj Mehta, professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Denver Health, says there’s no reason to believe it isn’t safe for them.
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Feb 24, 2021
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CPR News
“I’m nervous about the variants,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist with National Jewish Health and Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who serves on the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee. “I’m just concerned that the variants could potentially fuel another surge.”
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Feb 19, 2021
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Fox 31
“I will give everyone a sense of caution,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We don’t know when that next wave is going to come and we’re not at the point yet where we’re done with this.”
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Feb 23, 2021
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Denver Post
Photo: C. Lamont Smith, right, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from Hillary Lum [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] during the UCHealth COVID-19 vaccination clinic inside New Hope Baptist Church on Feb. 13, 2021 in Denver. UCHealth is coordinating with the church, the Center for African American Health, the NAACP and other organizations to distribute 750 vaccines to underserved and minority communities in the metro area.
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Feb 22, 2021
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Fox 31
“We want everyone, especially those in underserved and vulnerable communities, to have access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Minority communities have been disproportionately impacted during the pandemic,” said Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of University of Colorado Hospital and professor at the CU School of Medicine.
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Feb 11, 2021
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Medscape
“Adhesion formation is the main underlying etiology of small bowl obstruction, and adhesions are responsible for significant morbidity and healthcare expenditures, with limited effective options at this time for preventing adhesion formation,” lead author Frank Scott, assistant professor of medicine, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
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Feb 15, 2021
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Ladders
“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” says senior author David Kao from the University of Colorado in a media release. “Coffee and caffeine are often considered by the general population to be ‘bad’ for the heart because people associate them with palpitations, high blood pressure, etc.”
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Feb 15, 2021
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Sci News
“While smoking, age and high blood pressure are among the most well-known heart disease risk factors, unidentified risk factors for heart disease remain,” said David Kao, a researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Feb 17, 2021
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CPR News
Fernando Holguin, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Anschutz Medical Campus, said the studies reflect what he’s seen. “There were no hospitalizations related to these events and people recover in one to two days,” Holguin said. He said the symptoms pale in comparison to those who get hit hard with COVID-19. “You’re not going to land in the hospital, you’re not going to have shortness of breath,” Holguin said.
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Feb 13, 2021
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Denver Post
People may think they’re invincible with the vaccinations, but until 70% to 80% of people are vaccinated, the risk of spreading coronavirus remains, including the chance of exposure for others, said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention for UCHealth.
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Feb 12, 2021
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Channel 7
On Wednesday, we invited Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], to talk about the vaccine and answer some of your concerns surrounding the two vaccines currently available to the public.
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Feb 13, 2021
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Rocky Mountain PBS
At a community COVID-19 vaccination clinic, Fernando Holguin offered a stark message for those unsure about whether to get their shots. “I see patients in the intensive-care unit with COVID. I’ve seen many patients die,” he said. “You do not want to ever ... have to live through that or take that risk.” Holguin is a UCHealth doctor, University of Colorado medical professor and Mexican immigrant.
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Feb 10, 2021
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Medpage Today
“FDA approval of Libtayo will change the treatment paradigm for patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma,” Karl Lewis, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in a statement from Sanofi and Regeneron.
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Feb 9, 2021
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CNN
“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” said senior author David Kao, medical director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Feb 11, 2021
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CBS4
“We’ve just had so much infection and so much viral replication going on throughout the world, that eventually there’s going to be a change that’s going to be meaningful and that’s really what we’re starting to see,” said David Beuther, an associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine].
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Feb 8, 2021
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5280
There is not any data on the prevalence of vaccine guilt, but Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado’s Anschutz campus, surmises that many people who have already received the COVID-19 vaccine probably feel like their doses could have gone to someone more deserving. “I think it’s a really common phenomenon,” he says.
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Feb 8, 2021
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Out Front Magazine
“We do have life-saving vaccines. These vaccines are important to saving individuals but they are also important to reduce the transmission” Carlos Franco-Paredes, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said. “For the Latino community, I would like to inform, I would like to inform everyone, as a healthcare worker, as a physician, as a Latino physician, I believe in these vaccines.”
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Feb 10, 2021
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9News
Michelle Barron, with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], said virus mutations are expected. “Nature copies itself. It’s like handwriting,” she said. “It’s literally printing it out. At some point, it will make a mistake. The 100th time it copies itself, that mistake gets perpetuated, sometimes that’s meaningful. Sometimes it’s not.”
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Feb 7, 2021
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Channel 7
Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], joined Denver7’s Jason Gruenauer to answer your questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Feb 6, 2021
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CBS4
“You got something real, and it wasn’t the placebo,” echoed Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I kind of scan our list every day to see what gets reported. Fatigue, headache, the sore arm of course. Some people including myself had muscle aches and body aches, but they lasted maybe six hours.”
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Feb 10, 2021
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Colorado Times Recorder
Photo: The Rev. Timothy E. Tyler celebrated as elders received their COVID-19 vaccines at Colorado’s oldest Black church in Denver. He was speaking with Shanta Zimmer, an infectious disease expert at UCHealth and the University of Colorado School of Medicine who volunteered to give vaccines at the church on Sunday. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon for UCHealth.
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Feb 8, 2021
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CPR News
Photo: Ellis Linville, Sr., gets his second COVID-19 shot, from Sunita Sharma [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] at Shorter AME Church in Denver, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021.
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Feb 1, 2021
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Op-ed by Erik Wallace, an associate professor of Medicine and associate dean for the Colorado Springs branch at the University of Colorado School of Medicine: “We all need to do a better job of working together to address the challenges of homelessness and avoid the vitriol and criticism that has become too commonplace and accepted in society today.”
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Jan 28, 2021
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GeriPal
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults have lived through a lifetime of discrimination, social stigma, prejudice, and marginalization. Is the care that we are giving them in later life changing any of that or are we pushing them back into the closet? This is what we talk about in this week’s podcast with Carey Candrian from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Angela Primbas from Stanford University (and future geriatrics fellow at UCSF).
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Jan 28, 2021
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Healio
“The media attention impacts the stress levels of my patients,” Sean Iwamoto, assistant professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, and co-chair of the Endocrine Society’s Transgender Research and Medicine Special Interest Group, told Healio.
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Feb 4, 2021
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Our results clearly raise concern about the ability of the health care system to ensure equitable care for people with disability,” added senior author Eric G. Campbell, professor of medicine and director of research for the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Feb 2, 2021
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Real Simple
“The key is to remember to wear your mask around others, pay attention to cleaning of surfaces, and try to limit your activities to areas that are well ventilated or outdoors,” says Michelle Barron, UCHealth senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 28, 2021
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Real Simple
“Both of these types of masks have the ability to prevent transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19,” so you wouldn't need to double mask if you use one of these, says Michelle Barron, UCHealth senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 28, 2021
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9News
It’s why Jose Castillo-Mancilla, associate professor of medicine, is working to recruit more people of color for UCHealth’s third vaccine trial.
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Feb 3, 2021
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Denver Gazette
Others may want to see data or have harder reassurances, said Michelle Barron, a senior medical director and infectious disease expert at UCHealth. Still more just want to wait it out for a few months.
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Feb 4, 2021
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9News
“After the first dose of the vaccine, depending on which one you get, there is a little bit of a difference but you are not at the 95% range [of immunity],” said Michelle Barron from UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine]. “You are somewhere between 50 to 70 percent potentially protected, which means you can get COVID in-between vaccines.”
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Feb 3, 2021
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The New York Times
Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who is overseeing the trial site at UCHealth in Colorado, said he has received more than 2,000 emails and hundreds of calls from would-be volunteers.
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Feb 3, 2021
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CBS4
“It’s very positive,” said Thomas Campbell, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] lead investigator for the trial site on the Anschutz Medical Campus. So far, 216 people are enrolled at Anschutz. The goal is 30,000 participants over 115 sites in the U.S. and Mexico.
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Feb 3, 2021
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Denver Post
Who gets the vaccine first doesn’t necessarily reflect who wants it most, because people who don’t have internet access or the time to make many phone calls are less likely to successfully navigate the sign-up system, said Matt Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado’s Anschutz campus.
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Jan 26, 2021
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AMA
In an interview, AMA member Matthew K. Wynia, professor of medicine and public health and director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado in Aurora, explored why the medical profession’s role in the Holocaust is essential learning for medical students in 2021.
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Jan 22, 2021
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CPR News
That’s common for older LGBTQ adults, said Carey Candrian, an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Colorado. And many feel isolated, she added. “And I just get chills when I say that, because I think for people who don't identify as LGBT, I think it's so easy to forget the work that hiding requires,” Candrian said.
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Jan 25, 2021
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WTKR (Norfolk, Va.)
“Outcomes related to hospitalizations for COVID-19, admission to the intensive care unit in need for assisted ventilation and death is two to three times higher than people who live with diabetes than those who don’t,” said Robert Eckel, a current professor of medicine with the University of Colorado, Anschutz and former president of the American Diabetes Association.
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Jan 27, 2021
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Washington Post
David Beuther, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health, a leading respiratory hospital, [and an assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] echoed those concerns. Not only will the situation vary from place to place, but it’s also in constant flux.
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Jan 23, 2021
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Fox 31
“This is a real phenomenon but we’re still trying to understand exactly who it happens to and why it happens to particular patients,” said Sarah Jolley, director of the clinic [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Jolley says they often see long-term symptoms in young patients who were in good health before COVID-19. Symptoms typically include exercise intolerance, fatigue, shortness of breath and persistent cough.
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Jan 26, 2021
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CBS4
“We’re excited about the mass vaccine event,” explained Jean Kutner, UCHealth’s chief medical officer. “And as we are issuing invitations to make vaccine events we’re giving them the choice because we want people to be able to access whatever location is more convenient for them.”
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Jan 26, 2021
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Denver Gazette
“It’s not pleasant for most people but it’s not going to kill them either,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “With all vaccines, you look at the risks and the benefits. The risk of getting COVID is still pretty high and the benefit of getting this vaccine is that it will probably prevent you from getting COVID, or if you do get the virus, it will be significantly milder.”
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Jan 25, 2021
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9News
“They are still very committed to the trial and are still very much willing to continue to participate in the trial,” said Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who oversees the trial at UCHealth.
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Jan 22, 2021
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Denverite
[UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital] Chief Medical Officer Jean Kutner said the hospital is hosting vaccination clinics at places where certain communities already congregate. On Sunday, the hospital vaccinated nearly 250 people at the Shorter Community AME Church in Denver, which serves predominantly Black parishioners. UCHealth hosted a similar vaccination clinic at Salud Family Health Center in Aurora on Jan. 14 and 15, helping vaccinate about 500 people.
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Jan 26, 2021
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CBS4
“We’ve done a good job of listening to what we’re supposed to do: wearing masks, washing our hands, maintaining social distancing,” said Marc Moss, Director of Critical Care for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think maintaining those requirements is probably why we’re seeing fewer cases.”
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Jan 25, 2021
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Department of Medicine
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Robert W. Schrier. Dr. Schrier was the past Department of Medicine Chair for 26 years, from 1976 to 2002 as well as the Head of the Division of Nephrology from 1972 to 1992.
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Jan 19, 2021
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Healio
Nephrology News & Issues has also added to its Editorial Advisory Board members who represent the many aspects of nephrology and the communities served. Lilia Cervantes, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who has studied access to dialysis care for illegal immigrants and historically underserved communities, has joined the board.
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Jan 19, 2021
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9News
Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said he encourages people to get the second dose of the vaccine as soon as it’s available to them. Campbell said there’s very little information on the efficacy for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines if only a single dose is given.
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Jan 15, 2021
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Channel 7
“That is what has been proposed in the United Kingdom,” said Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer for UCHealth. Let’s start there. Yes, the U.K., for example, is now suggesting a second dose at the end of 12 weeks. But Dr. Campbell points out that’s the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is different from what’s approved in the U.S.
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Jan 15, 2021
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Fox23 (Tulsa, Okla.)
Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of UCHealth University at Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said she’s volunteering at a clinic hosted by a church that brings in the vaccine and helps build trust between health care workers and residents. For now, UCHealth schedules appointments online, but Kutner said a COVID-19 hotline is in the works because of the volume of calls from seniors.
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Jan 19, 2021
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CPR News
For weeks, Abbey Lara has been watching COVID-19 patients in the intensive care beds in her Aurora hospital, wondering when the next crush of the extremely sick would arrive. “I’m pleased to say we are not seeing the huge surge I think we were all somewhat anticipating,” said Lara, who treats pulmonary and critical care patients in the COVID-19 section of the ICU ward at University of Colorado Hospital, one of the state’s biggest and busiest.
The arrival of vaccines should now give people hope, but they’ll need to keep their guard up, said Sunita Sharma, a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. “I think there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. “I just don’t want people to give up that level of vigilance, because I think that's what's keeping our numbers in check right now.”
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Jan 11, 2021
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Colorado Sun
“The hope was that it would help patients recover faster … it would help them get better faster or prevent their disease from progressing,” said Tim Jenkins, an infectious disease doctor at Denver Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] whose job is to evaluate potential therapies for COVID-19 patients. “None of these recent studies have shown that.”
Still, patients hospitalized with the coronavirus are sometimes “very passionate” about receiving the plasma because they’ve heard about it in the news, said David Beckham, a University of Colorado physician and researcher who is studying the neurological effects of COVID-19.
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Jan 11, 2021
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9News
“We don’t know if this vaccine protects against COVID illness, and that’s the purpose of the phase 3 study, is to evaluate a vaccine for efficacy,” Thomas Campbell, UCHealth’s Chief Clinical Research Officer [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told 9NEWS.
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Jan 11, 2021
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Fox 31
Jean Kutner, the chief medical officer [at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says the Novavax vaccine works differently than the others. It uses a spike protein made in a lab to create antibodies. “It has shown very good response in terms of being able to create that immune response,” Kutner said.
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Jan 13, 2021
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Colorado Politics
University of Colorado bioethicist Matthew Wynia says he has done a breakdown to learn more about the people who are refusing the vaccination. “It tends to not be the clinicians,” he said. “It’s not the doctors and nurses. It’s the MAs and front desk and folks. And maybe, more importantly, these are people who have less control over their schedule, who may not be able to take time off, or are able to get child care.”
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Jan 5, 2021
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
“Our study doesn’t answer the question of why football athletes tend to underestimate their risks of injury or concussion,” said Christine Baugh, an assistant professor of medicine at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Jan 4, 2021
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“That athletes underestimated their risk of concussion and injury in this study raises important ethical considerations,” wrote Christine Baugh, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and member of the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. “What is the threshold for college athletes to be sufficiently informed of the risks and benefits of football to make decisions that align with their values and preferences?”
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Jan 4, 2021
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KUNC
“Not to generalize, but in the communities where we were seeing this occurring — and not just the Latino community, but kind of the people of color overall — their job positions put them in places where they could not socially isolate,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of Infection Prevention for the University of Colorado hospital system [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 30, 2020
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9News
Lung scarring, fatigue, chest and muscle pain and intermittent fever are among the long-term side effects that could be caused by COVID-19, particularly in seniors. That's according to Thomas Campbell, who specializes in internal medicine and infectious disease at University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 4, 2021
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Denver Post
When COVID-19 was found in December 2019 in China, doctors and scientists had to make guesses about what treatments might help, said Ivor Douglas, a pulmonologist and intensive care specialist at Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Usually, that meant trying drugs that worked against similar conditions, he said.
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Jan 4, 2021
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Bloomberg
“I suspect it’s more widespread than we know,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth, a health-care system with a dozen hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Colorado. “It’s a function of ‘if you look for it, you will find it.’”
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Dec 30, 2020
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9News
“I’m not surprised,” said Michelle Barron, Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Now that it’s in Colorado, it’s probably in more locations and we just haven’t detected it yet, but that won’t be a surprise and shouldn’t cause alarm.”
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Jan 2, 2021
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Washington Post
“It’s a very stigmatized population, and there are people who say, ‘They’re in prison, they must have done something terrible, and they don’t deserve a place in line,’” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado and a member of the state’s medical advisory group. But viewing the priorities in terms of who deserves to be inoculated, he said, “might end up prolonging the pandemic and killing more people.”
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Jan 5, 2021
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CPR News
One reason some areas have been able to move forward more quickly than others is that, due to inaccurate employment information on health care workers, some counties got more of the vaccine than they need for the earliest groups, according to Anuj Mehta [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] of Denver Health who chairs the group that advises the governor on vaccine allocation.
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Jan 4, 2021
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Fox 31
Jean Kutner, the Chief Medical Officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says healthcare workers share that same hope. “Hope that every shot in an arm we get is one less patient we will see in that COVID critical care unit,” Kutner said.
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Jan 3, 2021
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Fox 31
“It gives them information on the locations, times that they can potentially come and it’s still by appointment only. People should not be showing up hoping that they’ll get a vaccine,” said Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 31, 2020
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CBS4
“Unfortunately, nothing this year has been that easy,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Since Polis’ announcement, receptionists at UCHealth have been inundated with phone calls asking for the vaccine. “Our switchboards are going crazy,” Barron told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.
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Dec 30, 2020
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Fox 31
“It’s well-intended. They want people to get the vaccine. There’s obviously a lot of interest but I think it’s more complicated than people realize,” said Michelle Barron, head of infection prevention with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] ....“People are excited to qualify but we don’t have enough vaccine to be able to say, ‘Sure, come on in.’ The process will be very driven by having an appointment and a specified time.”
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Dec 24, 2020
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CURE
It is one of the most common types of leukemias in adults; however, the disease comprises only about 1% of all cancers. There are a variety of treatment options available for patients with AML, with more clinical trials evaluating new therapies in the pipeline. In this episode of the “CURE talks Cancer” podcast, we spoke with Dan Pollyea, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, about these treatment options.
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Dec 23, 2020
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CPR News
Over the course of the first week of vaccinations, the four hospitals worked to get residents vaccinated sooner. Shanta Zimmer senior associate dean of Medical Education who also works as an infectious disease specialist at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus said in an email that as of Dec. 19, at least 1,134 residents had received invitations.
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Dec 28, 2020
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Fox 31
Jean Kutner, the chief medical officer, says a few dozen existing patients over the age of 75 who had My Health Connection patient portal accounts were randomly selected for the pilot program..... She says once Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment give the green light to vaccinate patients over the age of 75, her system will be ready. “I think a lot of us really feel a lot of hope now,” Kutner said.
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Dec 26, 2020
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Fox 31
“It is very much on our minds about the potential post-holiday surge. I would say that we’re not going to breathe easy and really feel that we’ve turned a corner until probably three weeks into January,” said Jean Kutner, Chief Medical Officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 21, 2020
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Eat This, Not That!
“We present evidence that fructose, by lowering energy in cells, triggers a foraging response similar to what occurs in starvation,” notes lead study author Richard Johnson, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Dec 18, 2020
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WHYY
“I think there’s no doubt from what you’ve said that what you experienced would probably be classified as a medical mistake or a medical error. It’s the kind of error we would call a ‘diagnostic delay,’” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Dec 18, 2020
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Fox 31
Parosmia is a condition where a person experiences a distortion of their sense of smell. David Beckham, a neuro-infectious disease expert with UCHealth [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says a form of this a neurological side effect of COVID-19 is commonly found in larger studies.
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Dec 22, 2020
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9News
“If you work at a grocery store or you work at one of these places or you’re a teacher even like how would we know?” said University of Colorado Hospital’s infectious disease expert, Michelle Barron.
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Dec 18, 2020
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9News
The decrease doesn’t necessarily mark a trend, according to infectious disease specialist Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “A week is probably not long enough for us to really declare this a true trend. It’s hopeful. Certainly, I think we’d all take the news that we’re declining,” Barron, who also practices for UCHealth, said.
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Dec 18, 2020
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CBS4
“So far it’s been very mild. We have seen very few flu cases, very few hospitalizations if any, I don’t even know if we have had a hospitalization from flu yet,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of infection of prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 21, 2020
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9News
“Typically, the patients who qualify have to meet all of the requirements, which are comorbidities like diabetes, or heart disease, or over the age of 65,” Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told 9NEWS.
Colorado’s Department of Public Health said it got 1,130 doses on Dec. 2 and another 960 on Dec. 9, a small amount for a state that has daily covid numbers in the thousands. “It’s supply chain, honestly,” Chief Medical Officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Jean Kutner [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said.
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Dec 21, 2020
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CBS4
“We enrolled 217 participants,” said Thomas Campbell, principal investigator for the Stage 3 Moderna vaccine clinical trial at UCHealth on the CU Anschutz campus, one of 99 sites. “We have an obligation now that we know the vaccine works to provide it to those people. That’s my personal view,” said Campbell.
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Dec 21, 2020
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Fox 31
The 67-year-old does not know if he received the vaccine or a placebo. He reported having side effects after the second dose of some soreness and flu like symptoms, which Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] says are common. “This is the way we can say for certain whether a vaccine works or not.”
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Dec 19, 2020
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Denver Post
In making recommendations on who should receive vaccine first, the goal is to save the most lives, end the pandemic and maintain critical societal functions, said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Denver Health and National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 17, 2020
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Highlands Ranch Herald
With a nearly full ICU, the hospital is working to ensure clinical care is remaining high while staff receives inoculations, with some recipients having minor side effects like a temporary fever or flu-like symptoms. “It’s a monumental feat from a logistics perspective,” said Tom Purcell, chief medical officer at the hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We look at it every single day, the ICU coverage is at a critical level right now.”
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Dec 18, 2020
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Department of Medicine
The University of Colorado Department of Medicine announces a new research support program for early career investigators, whose research careers have been affected by COVID-19. The department will provide $50,000 for salary support to extend active and eligible Mentored Career Development Awards for six months.
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Dec 14, 2020
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ABC News
“Today I added “Dr” to my profile name. Thanks WSJ for the nudge,” wrote Dr. Laura Scherer, an assistant professor [of medicine in the Division of Cardiology] at the University of Colorado Medical School.
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Dec 16, 2020
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Scientific American
“Industry is more likely to fund research that is likely to show the benefits of their product or detract from [its] harms,” says Lisa Bero, a pharmacologist at the University of Colorado who studies research bias. “The problem with that is that those might not be the most important health questions.”
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Dec 16, 2020
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9News
“Typically, the patients who qualify have to meet all of the requirements, which are comorbidities like diabetes, or heart disease, or over the age of 65,” Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth, said.
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Dec 10, 2020
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9News
With the help of infectious disease specialists from UCHealth and Denver Health, we explored what life could look like after people start getting vaccinated for COVID-19. Here is part of our conversation with Michelle Barron of UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], and David Wyles from Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 13, 2020
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Steamboat Pilot & Today
Michelle Barron, senior medical director for infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], noted everything at this time is still an estimate — actual numbers will be known upon actual arrivals. The operations and logistics are complex, she said, and along with the vaccines, must come the supplies required to actually administer them. There’s also a lot of paperwork.
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Dec 15, 2020
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Fox 31
“There are more similarities than there are differences,” said UCHealth Chief Clinical Research Officer Thomas Campbell. Campbell was heavily involved in Moderna’s trial in Colorado, and said there was a high interest in participation, which greatly helped.
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Dec 7, 2020
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Channel 7
“I think one of the things that has struck me in this effort is the really incredible public support for these trials,” said Thomas Campbell, Chief Clinical Research Officer for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 16, 2020
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CPR News
Thomas Campbell, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the lead investigator at the UCHealth trial site, said among the people who got sick after receiving the vaccine, they were less likely to develop severe symptoms. “We don’t yet know whether these vaccines prevent transmission to other individuals,” he said. “That’s something we will learn in the coming months.”
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Dec 14, 2020
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Denver Post
“As vaccines come out we can’t be lax on the public health measures,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Denver Health and National Jewish Heath [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s going to be months before we are able to get back to a closer semblance of normal.”
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Dec 16, 2020
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Channel 7
“Everybody’s so excited. There’s like this energized feeling throughout the building now where everybody is just feeling like maybe there’s light at the end of the tunnel coming,” said Michelle Barron, the UCHealth Infection Prevention senior medical director.
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Dec 15, 2020
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Fox 31
“There’s probably a window where you’re protected against getting infected, but it’s not a lifelong thing,” says Michelle Barron. Barron says immunity gradually goes down over time, potentially lasting as little as three months.
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Dec 16, 2020
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9News
When asked about the fear many have expressed over the new vaccines, UCHealth Infection Prevention Senior Medical Director [and CU Professor of Medicine] Michelle Barron said, “as physicians, we need to show we are getting it, the community needs to show they are getting it.” Barron added that it’s critical for health care workers to understand what people’s concerns are and address them.
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Dec 12, 2020
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Fox 31
Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says they weren’t entirely sure how many doses they would receive until the official announcement from the state. “We had no idea what to anticipate. We were just hopeful we were going to and we were hoping that we would have enough for what is now the 1A grouping,” Barron said.
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Dec 8, 2020
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Outside
“You have to try to prevent the loss of muscle and bone, and while cardio will make your heart and lungs fitter, it won’t increase—and might not even prevent—loss of muscle mass,” says Wendy Kohrt, an exercise physiologist and a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Colorado [School of Medicine].
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Dec 4, 2020
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Verywell Health
“This study is similar to what we were seeing before COVID-19 in regards to hyperglycemia contributing to poor outcomes,” Cecilia C. Low Wang, professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes, at the University Of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School Of Medicine, tells Verywell. “But the big question now is whether COVID-19 is causing hyperglycemia. This virus brings all sorts of complications.”
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Dec 7, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“We created this monster to some extent,” said Matthew Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is firmly in the public health camp. But he said some of the ethical discussions surrounding vaccine allocation priorities focused on reciprocity.
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Dec 9, 2020
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CBS4
“It’s not just rolling up your sleeve and getting the injection,” said Thomas Campbell, Chief Clinical Research Officer at UCHealth. Campbell runs the trial for UCHealth and says the Denver officers’ jobs, as well as diverse backgrounds and ages make them good candidates. “We wanted to enroll participants who because of their work, their occupation, where they live, they were at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 exposure,” Campbell said.
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Dec 4, 2020
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9News
Thomas Campbell, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who is heading the COVID vaccine trial at UCHealth, said he leaped at Pazen’s offer because police officers were exactly the type of people they were hoping to enroll. “We wanted to enroll people who, because of their occupations, were at increased risk of exposure,” Campbell said.
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Dec 9, 2020
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9News
After two healthcare workers experienced an allergic reaction from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Britain regulators are warning individuals with a history of severe allergic reactions against receiving the vaccine. “First, this is not unexpected. We know virtually any vaccine, any medicine can cause an allergic reaction,” Thomas Campbell of UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] told 9NEWS.
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Dec 9, 2020
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Fox 31
“This is probably a more realistic timeline, and if people get it sooner, people will be happy,” said Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think the key is the supply chains and that’s ultimately what’s going to determine whether those timelines are that far out or potentially sooner.”
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Dec 8, 2020
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Reuters
“As with all vaccines, it may work really great in certain patient subsets, but not as well in others ... Does that mean you are free to hop on a plane or have 30 people over at your house? Probably not,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director for infection prevention at Colorado’s UCHealth.
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Dec 7, 2020
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CBS4
“In terms of figuring who gets it first the state will be offering guidance to us in terms of the phases — who they think is appropriate and how they go about that. So I think ultimately it will be not as difficult as it might appear to be on the surface,” said Michelle Barron, infectious disease specialist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.
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Dec 3, 2020
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Fox 31
“We didn’t know when we were going to get it, we didn’t know how much we were going to get and then we didn’t know who would actually take the vaccine if they received the shipments,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 2, 2020
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Fox 31
“It’s a big operation but I think lots of really smart people have been working on this,” said UCHealth Medical Director of Infection Prevention Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s going to be sent to us in shipments and over time, there will be enough for everybody.”
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Dec 4, 2020
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CBS4
“It’s a little bit different of a mechanism in that it actually again still affects replication,” said Michelle Barron, infectious disease specialist at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] in Aurora. “But it binds to the part of the proteins on the surface of the virus itself.”
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Dec 7, 2020
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9News
“We are very happy for the reprieve, if you will,” said Darlene Tad-y, the vice president of clinical affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association and a practicing hospitalist at UCHealth University of Colorado hospital in Aurora. “It’s given our hospital members, the staff within our hospital members, a little bit of breathing room.”
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Dec 6, 2020
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Fox 31
“We are preparing as if we are going to continue having a spike in cases really all the way through January, by the time you take into account Thanksgiving and Christmas,” said Jean Kutner, Chief Medical Officer at University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 9, 2020
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The New York Times
Matthew Wynia, director of the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, said that giving the powerful access was patently unfair. “That’s one of the reasons why we decided that we would allocate this only through the state and only through this random allocation process,” he said, “so that no one could get a leg up by virtue of their special connections.”
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Dec 10, 2020
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Department of Medicine
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are part of the NIH-funded study, the Collaborative Cohort of Cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R) Study, which includes 37 academic medical centers across the country.
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Dec 1, 2020
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UPI
“Some of the earliest art in the world are these mysterious figurines of overweight women from the time of hunter gatherers in Ice Age Europe where you would not expect to see obesity at all,” lead study author Richard Johnson said in a news release. “We show that these figurines correlate to times of extreme nutritional stress,” said Johnson, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Nov 26, 2020
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POZ
Joining her is Kristine Erlandson, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who specializes in infectious diseases. “Our findings in previous research suggest that an innovative approach to exercise is needed to improve physical function, reduce fatigue and to maintain a long-term exercise habit among older people with HIV,” [Allison] Webel [associate professor at Case Western Reserve University] said in a press release about the grant.
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Nov 29, 2020
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Fox 31
Todd Bull, a pulmonologist with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], says there is still a lot to learn about how blood clots occur in COVID-19 patients. “Increased blood clotting surround COVID-19 infections seems to be very real, we’re studying this still,” Bull said. “It’s sort of this fascinating aspect that we have not seen in other viral infections.”
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Dec 1, 2020
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Fox 31
Thomas Campbell, the chief clinical research officer for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said, “If we can get to 80 percent vaccination or even something slightly lower than that, there are some models that suggest that that may be able to provide us with protective herd immunity.”
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Dec 1, 2020
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NPR
It’s not a population that public health experts initially thought would need much convincing, says Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health in Denver and chair of Colorado's COVID-19 vaccine allocation committee [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]....Mehta says the fast vaccine development timeline is not, on its own, cause for concern. “The speed is not because people were cutting corners, but because of the urgency and the number of people working together on it,” he says.
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Nov 30, 2020
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Fox 31
“One of the things to note is that reporting was delayed because of the holidays. Because people were off, we’re probably going to see a huge bump in those numbers in the next day or two,” said UCHealth Infection Prevention Sr. Medical Director Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Dec 1, 2020
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Denver Post
“It is always a bit politically charged because different people have different motivations,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. “But it has played out in spades with the COVID pandemic because there is such a lot of political motivation to say, ‘Oh, it’s not that many people. It’s not so dangerous.’”
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Nov 24, 2020
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Department of Medicine
The University of Colorado Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Wendy M. Kohrt, PhD, has been named a University of Colorado Distinguished Professor by the CU Board of Regents on November 12, 2020. This is the highest recognition that can be bestowed on a University of Colorado faculty member and is a well-deserving honor for Dr. Kohrt.
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Nov 19, 2020
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Healio
Most patients experienced tumor shrinkage that in some cases met the criteria for objective response, according to study co-author Antonio Jimeno, professor of medicine/oncology and otolaryngology at University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Nov 19, 2020
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Medpage Today
Long-term care is ideally personalized to each patient, according to Larry Allen, and Colleen McIlvennan, both of University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, writing in an accompanying editorial.
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Nov 18, 2020
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Medscape
“This is a trend we’ve seen coming for about 5 years, but it’s still a little mind-boggling to see how quickly the numbers are diverging,” said first author John D. Carroll, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Nov 11, 2020
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9News
About a month into the pandemic, Michelle Barron, professor at the CU School of Medicine specializing in infectious diseases, took the advice she had been giving others for years and sought the help of a therapist. She shared her reasoning in an episode of the CU Anschutz podcast “COVID Reflections” which focuses on the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nov 13, 2020
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CPR News
Outdoor activities like skiing — where people have plenty of room to spread out — are relatively safe, said Michelle Barron, who specializes in infectious disease at the University of Colorado hospital.... “It’s apres skiing, it’s maybe some hot tubbing and condo life and that concerns me because I think that those are the instances in which spread, obviously, could occur,” Barron said.
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Nov 12, 2020
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Elite Daily
With colder weather rolling in, there are fewer options for lower risk outdoor gatherings. Michelle Barron, Senior medical director for infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells Elite Daily if you aren’t part of an individual’s bubble, attending Friendsgiving can put you at high risk for contracting or transmitting COVID-19.
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Nov 16, 2020
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Conde Nast Traveler
“Unfortunately, we have seen the numbers increasing nationwide, so it becomes even more important to assess the risks for your family,” says Andrés Henao, an internal medicine physician, infectious disease specialist, and assistant professor for the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Nov 19, 2020
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Channel 7
“It has been very busy [in the ICU] and it has really, as you mentioned, gone up in the last two weeks,” said Julia Limes of UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine]. . . .“We have started deploying people from other parts in the hospital to come and help us on both the COVID floors and in the COVID ICU,” said Limes.
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Nov 15, 2020
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9News
Fresh off the frontlines, Marc Moss [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] took the podium from Governor Jared Polis during a COVID-19 press conference on March 30...“We’re only at the beginning of this crisis,” Moss said during the press conference. Nearly eight months later, the doctor’s perspective remains unchanged. “We’re on the first lap,” Moss told 9NEWS on Sunday. “I still think we’re near the beginning of this pandemic.”
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Nov 17, 2020
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Westword
“I think that this [GEO staff] outbreak is the result of two factors,” says Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who has testified in lawsuits filed against GEO Group and ICE. “A, the third wave of COVID-19 community-based transmission; and B, the lack of preparedness needed to protect detainees during this pandemic. The latter factor is important to emphasize because it reveals the inability of detainees to shield from the pandemic. They just don’t care about detainees.”
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Nov 18, 2020
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Fox News
Each shot is comprised of the same formulation, meaning there is no difference between the shots, but the reason there has to be two is because the body responds to each differently. The first dose, Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary and critical care physician at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], previously explained to Fox News, acts as a primer for the body’s immune system, and the second dose, given three weeks later, will kick it into gear, so to speak.
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Nov 16, 2020
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Fox 31
Thomas Campbell agrees. He’s the Chief Clinical Research Officer at UCHealth who is overseeing the trial. Campbell says this vaccine is similar to the Pfizer vaccine, and has similar early data. “When you do two experiments, two scientific experiments and get the same answer you have much greater confidence in the results,” Campbell said.
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Nov 17, 2020
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CBS4
“We have two independent scientific experiments that come up with the same results that demonstrate that both of these vaccines are highly effective,” said Thomas Campbell, a professor of infectious disease medicine at CU Anschutz Medical Campus. “We are able to do that already with lots of other vaccines, I don’t think that will be a big issue.”
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Nov 16, 2020
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Channel 7
“That, I think, is very reassuring that you have two independent experiments that have come to the same conclusion, that the conclusion is real,” said Thomas Campbell, the chief clinical research officer for UCHealth and the associate dean for clinical research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Nov 12, 2020
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9News
The Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) said that across the state, there is still hospital capacity. “Now compared to what happened in the spring, we are seeing more patients who have COVID hospitalized staying in the medical floor. They are sick. Sick enough to be in the hospital but not so sick they are needing intensive care,” Darlene Tad-y [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] told Next.
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Nov 16, 2020
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Channel 7
“We’re increasing the number of beds needed for COVID patients on a day to day basis,” said Jean Kutner, the chief medical officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We’ve expanded now into our third Intensive Care Unit.”
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Nov 4, 2020
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Colorado Springs Indy
“Everybody across the board — nonclinical staff, EMTs, nurses, physicians — has a pretty high degree of concern around exposing themselves or their families to COVID,” says Elizabeth Harry, senior director of clinical affairs at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and visiting associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Nov 2, 2020
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KOAA
Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer of UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said this is one of about 40 COVID-19 clinical trials in which UCHealth locations are participating. In July, UCHealth announced [uchealth.org] it was partnering with CU School of Medicine to recruit participants for another vaccine trial at University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Nov 5, 2020
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CPR News
“One of the best practices we learned from other states that have already responded to significant outbreaks was to stand up a statewide transfer center,” said Darlene Tad-y, CHA vice president of clinical affairs [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “This will allow us to respond rapidly to capacity issues that a city or region of Colorado may face.”
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Oct 23, 2020
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NDTV Food
“Recent studies have shown that the reason fructose intake is strongly associated with development of metabolic syndrome is that fructose intake activates an evolutionary-based survival pathway that stimulates foraging behavior and the storage of energy as fat,” said lead author Richard Johnson, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Oct 27, 2020
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Fox 31
“She is the poster child for what she’s been doing,” said Radhika Acharya-Leon, a medical oncologist at UCHealth [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Acharya-Leon is McCumber’s doctor. She said McCumber should serve as an example for others who find themselves timid to return for exams, check-ups or even appointments.
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Oct 26, 2020
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Westword
“There’s an ongoing outbreak at the facility,” Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease doctor associated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said during an October 26 virtual press conference advocating for the release of detainees, particularly medically vulnerable detainees, from the facility. “There’s not really any other way to protect them.”
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Oct 27, 2020
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Fox 31
“Right now, we don’t have anything that we can offer people who are exposed and at risk for getting sick,” Brian Montague, an infectious disease specialist said.
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Oct 26, 2020
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CBS4
“It’s only available through clinical trials so we have a chance to really evaluate if it works,” said Brian Montague, an infectious disease physician [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who is leading one of those clinical trials.
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Oct 28, 2020
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9News
“In the span of about seven months, the whole world has come together to communicate and share ideas and perform clinical research and we’ve identified ways to improve outcome from patients in a very short period of time in terms of medical research,” explained Marc Moss, the critical care director at University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s unprecedented what’s happened. We still have a lot of work to do though.”
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Oct 16, 2020
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CNN
Sunnie Kim, gastrointestinal medical oncologist at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, called it a "great response" on Twitter, adding “hope we can all get to a better place with gender equality and continue to debunk outdated stereotypes.”
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Oct 19, 2020
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Healio
“Systemic lupus erythematosus often requires inpatient hospitalization,” Elena Weinstein, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio Rheumatology. “About 20% to 25% of individuals with SLE are hospitalized each year.”
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Oct 16, 2020
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Healio
“A post-internal medicine resident training program in cardiometabolic medicine would encompass metabolic elements of endocrinology — no emphasis on thyroid disease, bone disease, reproductive medicine or pituitary and adrenal disease — and focus instead on obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance and lifestyle medicine,” writes Robert H. Eckel, emeritus professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, [at CU School of Medicine].
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Oct 16, 2020
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UPI
“There have been many reports suggesting that sugar or other added sweeteners such as high-fructose corn syrup may be able to cause or aggravate various behavioral disorders,” study co-author Richard Johnson told UPI. “The evidence is based on the unique ability of fructose to lower energy that triggers a foraging type of response,” said Johnson, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Oct 18, 2020
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Healthline
If you’re traveling, consider staying at a hotel rather than with relatives, unless everyone in the group is very low risk and has plenty of space to spread out, said Andrés Henao, internal medicine physician, infectious disease specialist, and director of the UCHealth Travel Clinic at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Oct 21, 2020
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Yahoo! News
Gwen A. Huitt, an infectious disease physician at National Jewish Health [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says that since early in the pandemic, “we’ve known that some simple measures can drastically reduce the rate of infection with the novel coronavirus.”
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Oct 16, 2020
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NBC
A huge, global study of potential medications to treat Covid-19 suggests remdesivir — one of the few available drugs for the virus — may offer no real benefit to the sickest patients. But doctors on the front lines of treating severe cases advise caution when interpreting the findings. "We already knew that in sicker populations, it didn't really change outcomes," said Ken Lyn-Kew, a pulmonologist in the critical care section at National Jewish Health.
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Oct 16, 2020
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CBS4
“I think it has gone really well, there’s been tremendous support for this vaccine trial both by the community as well as our institutions, UCHealth and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus,” said Thomas Campbell, UCHealth Chief Clinical Research Officer and a professor of infectious disease at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “Because of the broad support we’ve received, we’ve been able to enroll not only a large number but diversity in our participants to try to represent the communities that COVID-19 affects in Colorado.”
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Oct 19, 2020
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Fox 31
Michelle Barron, an infectious disease doctor at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] says, “I wouldn’t say you can’t do it. I just think you have to be very thoughtful. The biggest thing, if you feel sick at all, do not show up!”
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Oct 21, 2020
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CBS4
UCHealth Medical Director of Infection Prevention Michelle Barron says hospital treatment has evolved since the start of the pandemic. “We know how to manage these patients. We did some things early on that we just wouldn’t have thought of doing, like making people lie on their bellies, even if they weren’t necessarily requiring oxygen yet, intubating them sooner, using some of the medications we have access to, didn’t exist at that time,” said Barron.
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Oct 19, 2020
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9News
“The best information we have is with influenza and clearly we know we have to get a shot every year because of that and we would assume that coronavirus probably also have some level of copying errors,” said Michelle Barron, medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at University of Colorado Hospital.
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Oct 18, 2020
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Fox 31
“The reality is Jan. 1, 2021, it’s not over,” Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention for UC Health University of Colorado Hospital said. Barron says after a person is exposed to someone with COVID-19, testing too soon can be misleading. “Once you’re exposed, its not wham-bam and you’re sick in the moment,” Barron said. “It usually takes three to five days for the infection to manifest.”
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Oct 18, 2020
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Denver Post
An average of 78% of intensive-care hospital beds and 79% of acute-care beds across Colorado were in use over the seven days ending Thursday. That doesn’t put hospitals at the breaking point, but they are monitoring that to decide about opening additional beds or canceling procedures that aren’t urgent, said Darlene Tad-y, vice president for clinical affairs at the Colorado Hospital Association [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s a signal for us to pay attention,” she said.
Typically, hospitals can get an idea of what the flu season will be like by looking to Australia, whose winter flu season is during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, said Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Oct 12, 2020
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Radiology Business
“Even a modest decrease in PTL (physician task load) was associated with a decrease in burnout, suggesting standard process improvement has the potential to positively impact PTL when looked at using this lens,” Elizabeth Harry, senior director of clinical affairs at the University of Colorado Hospital [and visiting associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], and co-authors concluded.
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Oct 12, 2020
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Channel 7
UCHealth’s director of infection prevention Michelle Barron says just like checking the weather on Halloween, we should be checking local COVID numbers, too. “If you’re in a community where there’s high rates of COVID, then going out and about is probably not a good idea,” Barron said. “But, doing things outdoors is obviously going to be much safer than if you have lots of people crowded in a small area without a lot of ventilation.”
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Oct 14, 2020
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Fox 31
Sarah Jolley [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] is a pulmonary critical care doctor at the outpatient clinic. “It does seem like if we can get people therapy early on, that can help to preserve some of their function,” Jolley said.
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Oct 14, 2020
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360Dx
“Collaborations like this are crucial in moving research forward and advancing and expanding clinical testing to as many members of our community as possible,” Kathleen Barnes, professor and director of CCPM at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in a statement.
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Oct 9, 2020
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9News
Gov. Jared Polis’ (D-Colorado) medical advisory group has released a preliminary plan for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado, when it becomes available. “It’s really a values proposition, so everybody is equal,” said Anuj Mehta with National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Oct 9, 2020
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CBS4
“The president received the same combination of two monoclonal antibodies that are being used in the clinical trials. The president did not enroll in a clinical trial, the president received these antibodies through what’s called ‘compassionate use,’” said infectious disease expert Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Oct 8, 2020
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Newsy
“Shortening the course of illness, getting people feeling better, faster, getting people discharged from the hospital faster,” said Thomas Campbell, Associate Dean for Adult Health Research at the University of Colorado.
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Oct 6, 2020
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Fox 31
“We’ve seen tremendous changes in how we have cared for patients with COVID infection over the past six months. It’s amazing to think this is a brand-new disease none of us have ever seen. We’ve learned from our own experiences. We have participated in 38 clinical trials of various ways of treating COVID-19 and learning from various colleagues across the country. We are definitely seeing better outcomes month over month,” said Jean Kutner is the chief medical officer for University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Oct 5, 2020
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Health Writeups
Jean Abbott is a retired emergency medicine physician. She also teaches at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. According to her and her colleagues, hospitals and Palliative Care Centers must plan ahead and always be ready for any pandemic or emergency.
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Oct 1, 2020
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Healthline
Jean Abbott, a retired emergency medicine physician who teaches at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healthline she was led to strong language in her study out of angst. She also wanted to push the concept of doing this better, even in possible near-future pandemic lockdowns.
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Oct 1, 2020
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Channel 7
At UCHealth, director of infection prevention Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] explains this winter could be unpredictable. “There is the risk that we have a number of flu hospitalizations and then COVID-19 surges and then our hospital capacity will be diminished,” Barron said.
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Oct 4, 2020
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Fox 31
Todd Bull, a pulmonologist with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said Sunday he sees patients have symptoms, such as shortness of breath, fatigue, joint issues, or unclear thoughts for an extended period of time.
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Oct 7, 2020
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Fox 31
“So far the antibodies appear to be very well tolerated without any serious side effects,” said Thomas Campbell of UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine]. “These monoclonal antibodies may provide benefits to people with COVID-19 illness by helping them get better faster.”
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Oct 5, 2020
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9News
“They found evidence that there was some potential benefit for people with COVID-19 illness, particularly for those people who had not yet developed their own natural antibody response,” said Thomas Campbell, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] an infectious-disease specialist who oversees the trial at UCHealth.
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Oct 5, 2020
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Wall Street Journal
But their immune systems are another important factor, researchers say. “When you challenge a body with a virus or a vaccine, there’s just not the vigorous response,” said Cari Levy, a geriatrician who is a professor at the University of Colorado.
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Oct 7, 2020
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The New York Times
“Wow,” said Matthew K. Wynia, an infectious disease specialist and director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. He noted that the editorial did not explicitly mention Mr. Biden, but said it was clearly “an obvious call to replace the president.”
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Oct 3, 2020
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Boston Globe
After hearing Conley’s press conference on Saturday, Matthew Wynia, director of the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said he worried the public was hearing “contradictory statements” that make “things even more uncertain than they need to be.”
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Sep 25, 2020
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“It’s more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Belgian beers, have this compound in it,” as do some chewing tobaccos, said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former American Heart Association president. He had no role in the Massachusetts man's care.
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Sep 30, 2020
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Colorado Springs Indy
“We are very worried you could get COVID and flu at the same time,” says Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus, and professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Sep 23, 2020
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9News
“Everybody that works in the UCHealth system, regardless of your role, has to get a flu shot every year,” said Michelle Barron, medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth University Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We’ve been very successful in terms of getting that done every year and our rates of compliance are 99% or 100% every year.”
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Sep 30, 2020
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Fox5 Atlanta
That may not be the case, says Fernando Holguin, director of Asthma Clinical and Research Programs at the CU School of Medicine and pulmonologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. Holguin led a study that looked at research data from 15 other studies of COVID-19 infections in people with asthma. His team found the airway disease may not be as high-risk as first thought. “Asthma is not likely something that raises the risk of having severe pneumonia from COVID,” Holguin says.
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Sep 30, 2020
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Healio
“Obviously, we would love to see fewer cases. There’s no doubt about that. And, if we can flatten the curve even further, that’s certainly ideal,” William Janssen, section head of critical care medicine and professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said during the virtual discussion Aug. 27.
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Sep 24, 2020
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CNN
“We need to think about how we’re going to provide care for patients who may be recovering for years after the virus,” said Sarah Jolley, a pulmonologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and director of UCHealth's Post-Covid Clinic [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Sep 24, 2020
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Fox 31
“That’s not really a surprise to us,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “If you think about most of the respiratory viruses, how many colds have you had in your lifetime? A lot. And often it can be the same virus that infects you.”
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Sep 18, 2020
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Healio
Marc P. Bonaca, associate professor and director of vascular research at University of Colorado School of Medicine and executive director of clinical research and community health at CPC Clinical Research, presented the new analysis at the virtual European Society of Cardiology Congress.
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Sep 23, 2020
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News Medical
“In essence, we propose that Alzheimer’s disease is a modern disease driven by changes in dietary lifestyle in which fructose can disrupt cerebral metabolism and neuronal function,” said Richard Johnson, Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Sep 22, 2020
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Valdosta (Ga.) Daily Times
“After conducting an extensive competitive evaluation, we selected AristaMD for their best-in-class technology, service and ability to launch the eConsult platform directly through the Epic EHR, creating a user-friendly experience for answering eConsults with minimal provider burden and workflow changes,” said Anne Fuhlbrigge, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Colorado.
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Sep 23, 2020
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KSAT (San Antonio)
“It’s more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Belgian beers, have this compound in it,” as do some chewing tobaccos, said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former American Heart Association president. He had no role in the Massachusetts man’s care.
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Sep 20, 2020
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CBS4
Sarah Jolley, a pulmonologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says Elizabeth isn’t alone. “We have certainly had patients who have had prolonged symptoms after COVID.”
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Sep 22, 2020
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Today
At UCHealth in Colorado, volunteers are rolling up their sleeves for a shot at protection from coronavirus. Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] is chief investigator, leading Phase 3 trials of Moderna’s experimental vaccine.
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Sep 14, 2020
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Taiwan News
As COVID-19’s global rampage continues, countries around the world are in a race to develop not only effective vaccines but also promising therapies. The 2020 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science is jointly awarded to Charles Dinarello, university professor of the University of Colorado, [and two others] for their groundbreaking discoveries about three cytokines critically involved in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases--interleukin-1(IL-1), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and interleukin-6 (IL-6).
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Sep 15, 2020
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Channel 7
Rowan completed a portrait of Abigail Lara. Lara said it was overwhelming seeing herself how patients see her at their bedside. “Wow. This is raw. This is real. It was exactly what I am doing in that moment. I have my respirator on, my PPE on, and I am taking care of patients,” Lara, a pulmonary physician at the University of Colorado, said.
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Sep 14, 2020
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Colorado Real Estate Journal
Eric Poeschla, head of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, believes architects, developers and builders should focus on increasing open areas, improved ventilation, increased humidity and hands-free devices and fixtures.
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Sep 10, 2020
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Fox 31
“The costume masks are probably not sufficient. So you really have to have a mask underneath their costume,” said Michelle Barron, the medical director and infection prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Sep 9, 2020
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Colorado Springs Independent
Inmates are at higher risk than the general population for catching and dying from COVID-19, according to Carlos Franco-Paredes, an associate professor of medicine and infectious disease at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Sep 4, 2020
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U.S. News & World Report
“A lot of people with asthma think they have a predisposition to severe COVID, and they worry a lot about going out. They should take precautions like using their masks, but they may not need to worry so much,” said study author Fernando Holguin. He’s director of the Asthma Clinical and Research Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Sep 8, 2020
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9News
The dramatic temperature drop Colorado experienced Tuesday could keep cardiologists on their toes. “We’re expecting a busy week,” said Prateeti Khazanie, a cardiologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “The temperature went from about 101 degrees on Saturday over Labor Day weekend to 35 degrees today. So, we are looking out for our patients.”
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Sep 7, 2020
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Channel 7
“This highlights that people under the age of 45 are being missed and people are still dying of that cancer under the age of 45,” said Denver Health Gastroenterologist Alvaro Martinez-Camacho [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Sep 7, 2020
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Fox 31
“The particulate matter is an irritant and increases mucus production in the lungs and causes increased inflammation in the airways … so this is a really potent trigger for many people, unfortunately, to worsen their breathing,” Jeffrey Sippel said, a pulmonologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and associate professor of clinical practice of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Sep 3, 2020
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CBS4
“I think it’s actually a really clever way of doing this in a way that makes sense,” said Michelle Barron, infectious disease specialist at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Sep 10, 2020
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CPR News
In April, Abbey Lara [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] worked her first shift treating pulmonary and critical care patients in the COVID-19 section of the ICU ward at University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. She counted 16 patients: two African American patients, one Filipino patient and 13 Latino patients. “It was incredibly striking,” said Lara, the daughter of migrants from Mexico.
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Sep 9, 2020
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KXAS-TV (Fort Worth, Texas)
“When it comes to our immune system’s ability to fight things long-term, the antibodies are key,” stated Ashley Frazer-Abel, assistant professor from University of Colorado School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Sep 1, 2020
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Real Simple
“Just like we check the weather on Halloween to see what precautions and extra gear might be needed, knowing the current state of COVID-19 in your community will be important in determining if it is safe or not,” says Michelle Barron, medical director for infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Aug 31, 2020
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Outbreak News Today
“It’s important to study infections like Chagas disease and its tie to fatal or disabling cardiac disease because it can help inform public health programs that can save people’s lives,” said lead author Andrés Henao-Martínez, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the CU School of Medicine.
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Sep 3, 2020
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Wyoming Public Radio
“There have been recent examples of that,” said Thomas Campbell, a virologist and infectious disease specialist with the University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth. “For instance, with remdesivir, there was a phase 3 trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the DSMB monitoring that study found evidence that remdesivir was providing benefit for treatment of severe and critical COVID."
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Aug 31, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“It is super-complex to think about how to do this,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at National Jewish Health and Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who is helping to lead some of the discussions.
“You can’t even plan for all these things in advance because your allocation protocol might change based on all the circumstances,” said Matthew Wynia, a bioethicist who leads the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Aug 20, 2020
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Medpage Today
Whereas much of Healthy People 2020’s focus was on individual health behaviors, the new set of targets pays more attention to overall well-being, a “very important area” that is related in part to the consequences of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, commented Robert Eckel, of the University of Colorado in Aurora.
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Aug 25, 2020
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OncLive
Erin Schenk, assistant professor of medicine and medical oncology, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Cancer Center, discusses the rapidly evolving treatment landscape in lung cancer.
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Aug 24, 2020
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Medscape
“Whether it’s within the VA or outside the VA, the assessment of interventional quality is paramount to ensure that patients receive the best possible care, veterans or nonveterans,” said Stephen Waldo, who is affiliated with both the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center.
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Aug 20, 2020
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The New York Times
“These patients are so underserved,” said Rebecca Boxer, medical director of clinical trials at the Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Research in Colorado [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “They do not get access to innovative new drugs and trials.”
“There just isn’t a culture in nursing homes that is attuned to doing research and clinical trials,” said Mathew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.
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Aug 25, 2020
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Fox 31
“All the data, so far, for this particular vaccine — from the earlier stage trials — looks very promising,” said UCHealth infectious disease expert Thomas Campbell.
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Aug 25, 2020
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CBS4
“If it’s effective and safe, then it could be a game changer,” said Thomas Campbell, infectious disease physician and principal investigator for the study at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. He understands minorities’ reluctance to participate. “There have been abuses in the past,” Campbell said, “what we would consider to be unethical experimentation.”
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Jul 27, 2020
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UCHealth Today
For the ninth year in a row, U.S. News and World Report ranks UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, No. 1 on its list of the state’s best hospitals. UCH is also ranked among the nation’s best in nine specialties including No. 2 in pulmonology & lung surgery.
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Aug 18, 2020
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OncLive
Paul A. Bunn, Jr, distinguished professor, James Dudley Chair in Lung Cancer Research, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado, and a 2014 Giant of Cancer Care® in Lung Cancer, discusses potentially targeting HER3 in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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Aug 17, 2020
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Healio
The definition of metabolic syndrome has been argued upon for decades, and debate continues with the definition of cardiometabolic syndrome, according to Robert H. Eckel, emeritus professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, emeritus professor of physiology and biophysics and Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, past president of the American Heart Association and current president of medicine and science of the American Diabetes Association.
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Aug 17, 2020
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Steamboat Pilot & Today
In terms of smoke coming from the wildfires surrounding Steamboat Springs, the people who most need to take extra caution are those with existing respiratory issues, said Sarah Jolley, an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. For people with conditions including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, or any other form of lung disease, wildfire smoke could “increase the risk of exacerbation and infection,” Jolley said.
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Aug 14, 2020
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International Business Times
Mark Kearns, a pulmonary critical care physician at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]: “We know that many of our patients that have recovered from COVID, even people that have been severe enough to require care in the hospital or ICU like months later still having symptoms. Whether that be ongoing shortness of breath, fatigue — [they] just haven’t been able to return back to their normal state of health.”
Despite the warning, Sarah Jolley, director of the Post-COVID Clinic at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], revealed there isn’t a definitive link between those who are recovering from the coronavirus and poor air quality.
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Aug 14, 2020
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KOAA
“These are our future doctors and medical leaders of tomorrow. And the more experience we can give them in the pandemic today, the better equipped they will be to handle future pandemics,” said Renna Becerra, inpatient internal medicine liaison for the CU School of Medicine Colorado Springs Branch and co-investigator of the project.
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Aug 17, 2020
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Colorado Sun
When the new coronavirus first swept through Colorado earlier this year, baffling doctors with its myriad of symptoms and methods of spread, Brian Stauffer, the head of cardiology at Denver Health, soon began to notice a different kind of pandemic mystery. People, it seemed, had stopped having heart attacks.... A new study from Stauffer and several Denver Health colleagues offers the first clue to the answer in Colorado.
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Aug 20, 2020
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USA Today
At the University of Colorado, Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine] said his medical practice has used its electronic medical records to identify and reach out to everyone at high risk for COVID-19. “I’ve already had over 100 people email me personally and said ‘sign me up,’” said Campbell, also an infectious disease physician at UCHealth.
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Aug 15, 2020
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9News
Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease physician at the CU School of Medicine, told 9NEWS they have started outreach but not recruitment. “We have received a lot of interest; we already have close to 100 people who have stepped forward and said, ‘I want to volunteer for this study,’” Campbell said.
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Aug 4, 2020
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UCHealth Today
The StopRA trial has screened more than 20,000 people, looking for antibody that greatly increases the risk of rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the joints
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Aug 4, 2020
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Healthline
It’s behavior that worries Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “I think unfortunately the whole mask thing and many of these things have become so politicized there’s certainly so much information out there that’s just terrible and it’s left a lot of people on the fence in terms of really understanding what’s at stake,” Barron told Healthline.
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Aug 3, 2020
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5280
In search of what I might call a more humanistic view on air travel in the time of COVID-19, I reached out to an unlikely source: an infectious disease specialist. Michelle Barron is the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Aug 2, 2020
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Denver Post
“And that’s the key to this,” said Michelle Barron, a professor of medicine in the division of infectious disease at CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus. “I think that’s important, if we can maximize all we can do (off the field), or we can’t do it. That means, if (players) don’t follow the rules, you’re off the team for the rest of the year. There has to be some level of consequence for people who don’t follow the rules.”
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Jul 27, 2020
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OncLive
Paul A. Bunn, Jr, distinguished professor, James Dudley Chair in Lung Cancer Research, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado and a 2014 Giant of Cancer Care® in Lung Cancer, highlights encouraging data with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) in HER2-mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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Jul 28, 2020
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Denver Business Journal
For University of Colorado Hospital, Covid-19 has reinforced the importance of close collaboration between academic and clinical partners. “We were able to stand up very quickly a process for embedding evidence-based clinical pathways and guidelines,” Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of UCH [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told Denver Business Journal.
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Jul 17, 2020
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News-Review (Petoskey, Mich.)
Those consequences are distinct from the well-established connections between poverty and poor health, said Edward Havranek, director of medicine at Denver Health Medical Center [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. And although the exact reasons for the link between plunging income and later health problems aren’t clear, one obvious suspect is stress. “As our wealth drops, we have the same set of obligations,” Havranek said.
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Jul 21, 2020
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Fox 31
“I think the public is much more aware of the benefits of genetic testing in getting information back that can help them make really important decisions about their own life, their treatment, their risk of developing disease and more. I also think there’s a real altruistic nature to our patient population. They want to contribute to research and discovery, and I appreciate those who have joined this initiative.” Kathleen Barnes, Director Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine and University of Colorado School of Medicine Professor
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Jul 20, 2020
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Fox 31
“The question is, is this the beginning [like] what happened back in March when it started this way and then it escalated, or this sort of a slow steady increase that we’ll see that will remain manageable,” Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the University of Colorado Hospital UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said, adding “Or will it go back down? I think those are the things that remain definitely unknown.”
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Jul 13, 2020
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Healio
In a related editorial, Marc P. Bonaca, associate professor and director of vascular research at University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Connie N. Hess, associate professor of medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine, wrote: “Taken together, these observations confirm the risk profile of patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic vascular disease and the important association of polyvascular disease with outcomes”
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Jul 13, 2020
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ACP Hospitalist
ACP Member Read G. Pierce, agreed that building relationships with clinical colleagues can help one find joy and sustenance in work. In the spring, the hospitalist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus created an hour-long Zoom forum with his colleagues to connect and debrief. They call it “Fears, Beers, and Cheers.”
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Jul 14, 2020
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USA Today
Unlike traditional vaccines that expose participants to a small amount of virus, this vaccine focuses on the genetic code of the coronavirus and its spike protein, said Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease doctor at the CU School of Medicine and University of Colorado Hospital. The recruitment period will last about two months, and the call will go out through UCHealth’s My Health Connection patient portal.
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Jul 9, 2020
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CBS4
“The vaccine is intended to prevent COVID-19,” said Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease physician at the CU School of Medicine and University of Colorado Hospital. “So the trial will evaluate how well the vaccine does that and it will also evaluate whether or not the vaccine is safe for people to get.”
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Jul 13, 2020
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Fox 31
The Medical Director for Infection Prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Michelle Barron, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said based on the information local schools have right now, they appear to be making sound choices on reopening schools.
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Jul 10, 2020
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Channel 7
David Beuther serves as a pulmonary physician and the chief medical information officer at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. This year, he served on the Douglas County advisory board to help reopen schools in the fall. He supports the mask mandate and is afraid that if people don’t start to take masks more seriously the state could need to shut down again.
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Jul 9, 2020
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CBS4
Marc Moss, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Director of Critical Care [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says right now they’re seeing a slight increase in hospital patients with COVID-19. “That’s concerning,” Moss said. “Because that little blip going from 20 to 27, then it’s 30, 40 and were back up to the 160 people we had in the hospital.”
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Jul 10, 2020
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Channel 7
“Growing up, I was always pretty interested in science. I have a few family members who are in medicine and nursing,” said University of Colorado fourth-year medical student Lauren Heery. “Helping people through my direct knowledge as a scientist, and now as a medical student, was I think what interested me the most.”
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Jul 17, 2020
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CPR News
CPR News continues to speak with experts, doctors, researchers and people who’ve recovered. We want to bring you the stories of people who are caring for COVID-19 patients in their own words. Why do they do what they do? What do they remember about seeing their first coronavirus patient? And...what do they hope we take away from this pandemic.
Here’s what seven medical professionals had to say.
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Jul 17, 2020
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Department of Medicine
The Academic Clinician Education (PACE) program supports the career development of our department’s clinician-educators. These faculty members make crucial contributions to the success of our department by developing and improving innovative educational programs, and engaging in educational research to guide how we teach and assess health professional learners.
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Jun 30, 2020
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Highlands Ranch Herald
“If you look at our number of covid patients compared to other hospitals, our numbers have generally been lower,” said Radhika Acharya, medical director of the cancer center [at Highlands Ranch Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think it was because we were early adopters so we could keep our patients safe.”
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Jul 6, 2020
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Fernando Holguin, the director of the University of Colorado’s Latino Center for Research and Policy Center, focusing on Latino health disparities, said that during the peak of hospitalizations in March and April, he recalls walking through the UCHealth intensive care unit, when he realized just by looking around that the pandemic was spreading rampantly among the minority community. “It seemed like maybe 80% were brown or Black. Most were Hispanic or had Hispanic last names,” Holguin said. “The disparities were really obvious.”
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Jul 2, 2020
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Detroit News
“I’ve been watching that map. Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico. From the Colorado standpoint, we’re well aware of what’s going on around us and we’re very anxious,” said Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “The next couple of weeks are critical.”
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Jul 7, 2020
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Fox 31
“I think [people are] scared. I think they’re scared they have the disease. They don’t want to infect other people in their family and also I think people in Colorado are smart,” UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Director of Critical Care [and CU School of Medicine Professor of Medicine] Marc Moss said.
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Jul 7, 2020
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New York Post
“If you want to have the full life you are hoping for on the other side of COVID-19, then resume your doctor appointments, check your health numbers, like blood glucose, and if you have diabetes, your hemoglobin A1c, cholesterol, and blood pressure, and get a plan for preventing heart disease and stroke,” said Robert H. Eckel, American Diabetes Association president of medicine and science and an endocrinologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Jul 7, 2020
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Elemental
It’s still unclear whether the new-onset cases are unique to the novel coronavirus or if they’re occurring in people who might already be prone to developing diabetes when facing systemic infection or severe stress from an illness, such as a cytokine storm, says Robert Eckel, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association and professor of medicine emeritus in the division of endocrinology, metabolism & diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Jul 9, 2020
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9News
“Our site here at University of Colorado Hospital is part of a nationwide network called the COVID Prevention Network, which is set up so that it has a cohort of sites that are available to sequentially enroll into multiple vaccine studies,” said Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease physician at the CU School of Medicine and University of Colorado Hospital. “If it works, the Moderna vaccine could be a real game-changer for the pandemic.”
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Jun 30, 2020
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Medscape
Jacinda Nicklas, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, presented findings of the BAB trial during the virtual American Diabetes Association (ADA) 80th Scientific Sessions.
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Jun 30, 2020
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5280
But Bill Burman, director of Denver Public Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], sees just as much of a problem with the bottomless mimosas, burger-and-a-beer lunch combos, and all-day “happy hours” that restaurants and bars marketed before the COVID-19 lockdown—and will revive after it’s over.
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Jun 27, 2020
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CPR News
Sarah Rowan is an infectious disease specialist at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] by day and an artist in her free time. She also emailed some friends from local hospitals, like Shanta Zimmer, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Jun 30, 2020
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ABC15 (Phoenix)
“People who’ve experienced military triage and having to make these decisions on the battlefield are sometimes scarred for life by this. It’s not something you ever really forget,” said Matthew Wynia, an infectious disease and public health expert from the University of Colorado.
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Jun 26, 2020
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This randomized clinical trial began on March 18 in collaboration with UCHealth and various hospitals (over 2,000 patients are enrolled nationally). While the trial began with a broad range of COVID-19 patients, it has since narrowed to only enrolling people on a ventilator. “What’s currently being enrolled is a little further along the spectrum of severity than what the ruxolitinib study is enrolling,” says Thomas Campbell, professor of medicine-infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Hydroxychloroquine Update: On Monday, June 15, the FDA revoked the authorization for physicians to prescribe hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 outside of research studies. UCHealth is currently conducting four such trials: two inpatient and two outpatient ones, though due to press coverage, including President Donald Trump’s inaccurate claims on the drug, patients are increasingly hesitant to participate. “We worry that people are forming opinions outside of the science. We want to encourage people to enroll in trials so that we actually can get the definitive answer,” says Jean Kutner, professor of medicine at [CU School of Medicine and] UCHospital.
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Jun 30, 2020
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CU Anschutz Medical Campus
For Kristina Slunecka, it was the woman locked down in her assisted-living facility room, unable to leave the confines of her four walls even to go outside because of COVID-19.
For Desirae Martinez, it was the elderly man beginning their first call with, “I don’t have much to say,” and still chatting with his newfound friend an hour later.
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Jun 18, 2020
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Boulder Weekly
In Colorado, the state legislature created The Sickle Cell Research and Treatment Center in the early 1970s as part of the CU School of Medicine. With an emphasis on research and education, the purpose of the Center is to “help to assure that persons living with sickle cell disease across the lifespan have the specialty services that they need [and] to be champions in the systems where sickle cell patients receive care,” says Director Kathryn Hassell.
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Jun 22, 2020
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Time
“You have some stakeholders who want to downplay things and make it sound like we’ve had a wonderful response, it all worked beautifully,” says Matthew Wynia, director of the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities and a member of the study committee. “And you’ve got others who say, ‘No, no, no. Look at all the people who were harmed.’”
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Jun 23, 2020
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NPR
The findings are consistent with several studies following asymptomatic patients in China, which have found that many can develop lesions in the lungs despite having no outward symptoms, says Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] not involved with the paper. “It probably is, at least in this disease, pretty common,” she says.
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Jun 21, 2020
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Fox 31
“We don’t know what’s gonna happen in the future, and I think that’s creating a little stress in people,” said Director of Critical Care at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Marc Moss [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Moss says during the peak, their hospital was taking care of more than 140 COVID-19 patients. That number is now less than 10.
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Jun 19, 2020
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CPR News
Ivor Douglas, an ICU pulmonologist at Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the number of patients in his ICU is far below its peak in April. “The volume of very gravely ill patients with COVID-19 has settled to a low plateau,” Douglas said. At the same time, he said, those patients still in the hospital have acute health problems related to the virus.
Michelle Barron, the Medical Director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], is feeling encouraged but remains cautious. “I think that we’re kind of at that critical crux in terms of determining ... whether we will hopefully continue to be able to see a decline,” Barron said.
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Jun 22, 2020
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9News
Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the uptick in cases isn’t all bad news, and that hospitalizations have held more or less steady on recent weeks.
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Jun 22, 2020
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Department of Medicine
University of Colorado Distinguished Professor Charles Dinarello, MD, has today been named one of the winners of the 2020 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science “for the development of cytokine-targeting biological therapies for treatment of inflammatory diseases.” Dr. Dinarello shares the prize with Dr. Marc Feldmann and with Dr. Tadamitsu Kishimoto.
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Jun 12, 2020
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Colorado Springs Business Journal
Q32 Bio — US 10,233,235 “Modulating the Alternative Complement Pathway” application pertains to methods and compositions for modulating, e.g., stimulating or inhibiting, activity of the alternative complement pathway....Q32 Bio was seeded and incubated by Atlas Venture with foundational science from renowned researchers in immunology Michael Holers, and Joshua Thurman, from the CU School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Jun 17, 2020
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U.S. News & World Report
“I think one of the biggest concerns about testosterone therapy is whether it is really needed,” said Robert Eckel, professor of medicine and an endocrinologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Jun 11, 2020
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Daily Beast
Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz, said his eyebrows didn’t shoot up when he read the email—but “they arched a little.”
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Jun 16, 2020
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The New York Times
Public health officials say that indicates the virus has been present in prison populations for far longer than had previously been understood. “If you don’t do testing, you’re flying blind,” said Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Jun 13, 2020
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CBS4
But others wonder if it’s ethical to infect people with a potentially lethal virus with no reliable treatment. And Matthew DeCamp at UCHealth says, as coronavirus transmission rates decline, a challenge trial is a harder sell. “It’s harder to justify adding on risk and exposing people to additional risk,” said DeCamp, internal medicine doctor at UCHealth and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado.
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Jun 13, 2020
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CNBC
Even if you’re not exhibiting symptoms, you could be shedding pieces of the virus. If the test comes back positive, then it is assumed that “you’re sick and infected,” David Beuther, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells CNBC Make It.
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Jun 12, 2020
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CPR News
“You might be safe where you may not get it again, but it’s likely just with most respiratory viruses, it’s temporal,” said Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital. “So you have some protection from getting the infection again for like a month or two, and then it goes away.”
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Jun 16, 2020
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CBS4
“The patients that require supplemental oxygen or ones that are on mechanical ventilation appeared to be the ones that benefited the most,” said William Janssen, the Section Head of Critical Care at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We’ve been using steroids in many of our patients with COVID-19 as well.”
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Jun 12, 2020
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Department of Medicine
The University of Colorado Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the 2020 Rising Star Award recipients. The Rising Star Award recognizes outstanding early-career faculty members who exemplify the department’s core values of excellence in patient care, research, education and community service.
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Jun 11, 2020
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CPR News
After any potential exposure to COVID-19 it’s important to wait five to seven days — or until you show symptoms — to get a test, said Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Jun 9, 2020
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Fox 31
“I think we’re hoping we’re ahead of this curve, but widespread testing is kind of the key to that,” says Michelle Barron. Barron is UCHealth’s Medical Director for Infection Prevention and Control, and says the new policy went into place Monday.
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Jun 9, 2020
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CBS4
Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], encourages everyone to continue to be mindful of steps people can take to reduce exposure to and transmission of COVID-19.
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Jun 2, 2020
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Medscape
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, and metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the deadliest form, with a 5-year survival rate of just over 5%.
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Jun 1, 2020
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Medscape
On May 18, Colorado Doctors for Camp Closure members offered enough masks to supply all 510 detainees at the GEO Aurora ICE detention facility, but ICE refused the offer, says Danielle Loeb, a member of the organization and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado.
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May 29, 2020
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Channel 7
Denver Health Internal Medicine doctor [and CU School of Medicine Assistant Professor] Jeremy Long told Denver7 Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies deciding to reimburse more providers for telehealth has increased access to healthcare.
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Jun 1, 2020
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CPR News
Michelle Barron, who oversees infectious disease control and prevention at UCHealth, got a cut and color May 22 from her stylist David MacDonald at Moda Salon in Denver. She’s known him for 20 years. As someone who is trained in infectious disease prevention, she grilled her stylist about how well he sanitizes the salon before she became his client. “Even before coronavirus I was the crazy person wiping everything down with wipes and using hand sanitizers,” Barron said. (Photo credit: CPR News.)
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May 29, 2020
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CPR News
David Beckham at University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine] has started a clinical trial that compares patients treated with plasma to a database of patients who did not receive the plasma nor participated in other clinical trials. So far, he and his team have enrolled 82 patients.
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Jun 4, 2020
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Denverite
“I think that’s the key thing for people to also understand is that we don’t know if there’s going to be another big wave where we see hundreds of cases (a day) or if we’re going to see maybe 10 cases,” says Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at Aurora’s University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Jun 1, 2020
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Denver Post
The new coronavirus mostly spreads via droplets when someone shouts, chants, sneezes or coughs, and people are most at risk when they are within 3 to 6 feet of an infected person, including carriers of the virus who don’t have symptoms, said Michelle Barron, medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jun 4, 2020
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Washington Post
Now, as medical institutions explore resuming non-coronavirus research, they say it will be hard to make up for lost time. Some researchers have to rebuild their colonies of specially bred animals. Many labs are implementing staggered work shifts to limit the number of employees at any one time. “I don’t see how we can maintain the levels of activity we had in the past,” said Craig Jordan, a leukemia researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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May 27, 2020
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9News
“For us to be able to know how much disease is out there, we have to be able to test for it,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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May 27, 2020
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KUNC
Since the pandemic began, Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious disease expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, has visited jails in Colorado, Maryland and Michigan to carry out inspections.
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May 27, 2020
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The New York Times
Abigail Lara [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] now wears one in a Covid-19 section of the I.C.U. “It takes a little bit of getting used to, but I find them to be comfortable,” she said. “I think we all appreciate that we were given this level of protection.”
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May 18, 2020
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Livestrong
Here’s a quick primer on how circulation works: “Oxygen-rich blood comes out of the heart and delivers oxygen to your body through the arteries, giving your muscles and brain energy,” says Marc Bonaca, director of vascular research and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and spokesperson for the American College of Cardiology.
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May 18, 2020
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Women's Health
Caffeine is a powerful stimulant. This means it can wake you up, help you stay focused, and even get things moving in the bathroom. But this also means it spikes your blood pressure and stresses your heart, says Amber Khanna, a cardiologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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May 18, 2020
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Newsweek
Robert H. Eckel, a past-president of the American Heart Association and Clinical Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who did not work on the study told Newsweek the findings are limited because the researchers relied on the participants accurately reporting what they ate.
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May 15, 2020
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Health Central
“Testosterone drops with age more than with menopause,” says Margaret Wierman, professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and former Vice President of Clinical Sciences at the Endocrine Society.
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May 14, 2020
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Chemical & Engineering News
The test only takes 30 min and does not require mass spectrometers or other specialized equipment. This short turnaround time and easy processing is “really appealing,” says HIV researcher Jose R. Castillo-Mancilla of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, who was not involved with the study.
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May 21, 2020
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Westword
Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease doctor with the University of Colorado, has urged the ICE facility to reduce the detainee population and release vulnerable individuals. “The potential for the spread of one of these outbreaks within that detention facility may have significant casualties,” Franco-Paredes wrote in a letter to local ICE leadership in March.
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May 18, 2020
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Fox 31
Marc Moss, professor of medicine and head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of medicine also took part in the Q&A seminar. “It’s [the pandemic] made a job where you’re dealing with people in crisis even more difficult,” said Moss, referring to the difficulty of making a connection with patients and their families during the pandemic.
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May 15, 2020
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Colorado Sun
Darlene Tad-y, the vice president of clinical affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the early studies on remdesivir are guiding hospitals’ decisions. “They’re looking to these studies to help identify patients who are in similar situations as those in the study,” she said.
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May 17, 2020
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Denver Post
Patients also have to be at least 18 and able to understand that the treatment is experimental, said David Beckham, an associate professor in the infectious diseases division on the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.
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May 13, 2020
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CBS Sacramento
One key strength of this study is that the “period of observation is longer — 20 years,” said Bob Eckel, a past president of the American Heart Association and a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Colorado.
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May 12, 2020
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PopSugar
“Seasonal allergy symptoms are driven by allergies to pollen, and most commonly to pollen that comes from plants or trees that utilize wind pollination. Anything that can make pollen more or less airborne can lead to changes in pollen counts and changes in allergy symptoms,” explains Lorelei Vandiver, an allergy and immunology specialist at UCHealth [and instructor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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May 11, 2020
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Washington Post
Carlos Franco-Paredes, a clinician from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, examined the jail last week as part of the lawsuit….Franco-Paredes said during Monday’s hearing that during his inspection last week, jail officials appeared to be following jail operating recommendations by the CDC. “I think for the most part they were in compliance with CDC guidelines at the time of the inspection,” he said.
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May 7, 2020
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9News
“The problem is that you’re touching everything,” said Michelle Barron, the medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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May 8, 2020
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Newsweek
“In a fast-moving pandemic, protecting individuals’ rights to privacy limits the ability of the government to protect the health of the population,” says Eric Campbell, a researcher with the University of Colorado’s medical campus specializing in health policy and bioethics.
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May 12, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“I feel like we understand the disease better than we did in the beginning,” said Marc Moss, [head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine for CU School of Medicine] who works in pulmonology and critical care at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “I think a lot of medicine is pattern recognition and the more patterns you see the more comfortable you are caring for those patients.”
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May 6, 2020
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Colorado Springs Independent
With campuses closed and hospitals becoming front lines in the fight against the novel coronavirus, students like those at University of Colorado School of Medicine have been thrown for an unprecedented loop. “It’s really changed everything,” says Erik Wallace, associate dean of the university’s Colorado Springs branch, who adds that when the pandemic hit, program officials essentially had to scrap normal curriculum at every level.
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May 6, 2020
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CURE
D. Ross Camidge is the director of thoracic oncology and the Joyce Zeff Chair in Lung Cancer Research at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, that had to rapidly react to the developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 1, 2020
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CBS4
For professionals, there’s a sort of “grin and bear it” reaction with every trip to the grocery store, as described by UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine] infectious disease specialist Michelle Barron.
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May 2, 2020
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ABC News
“We’ve always had universal safety precautions for everyone in the hospital and operating room. Now, they are enhanced,” said Jean Kutner, chief medical officer for UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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May 7, 2020
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Medscape
After COVID-19 hit the Denver area, internist Jean Kutner, and her clinical colleagues drastically reduced the number of patients they saw and kept a minimum number of people in the office.
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May 4, 2020
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Fox 31
“I think remdesivir is the first step in developing effective treatments for COVID-19. It’s probably not the last step, and it may not turn out to be the best,” said Thomas Campbell, professor of Medicine-Infectious Diseases at the CU School of Medicine. Doctors at UCHealth are also examining Ruxolitnib, Sarilumad, and hydroxycloriquine, other drugs touted as potential game changers.
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Apr 28, 2020
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Healio
“Of note, the majority of patients with ovarian cancer included in the study achieved a best overall response of stable disease along with noted clinical observation of tumor regression in injected as well as uninjected lesions, which supports further investigation of this tumor type,” Antonio Jimeno, professor in the [division] of medical oncology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said during a presentation.
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Apr 28, 2020
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MD Magazine
Marc Bonaca of the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado: “We are trying to do everything virtually for our patients with vascular disease. The need to come back for recurrent procedures or other issues is a real problem because we don’t want them to get infected. It’s a very fragile population.”
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Apr 27, 2020
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Health
Inflammation may also play a big role in blood clotting among COVID-19 patients. “When there is very active and severe inflammation in the body, the surface of blood vessels can become disturbed and the clotting system can be activated,” Kathryn Hassell, a hematologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells Health.
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Apr 23, 2020
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CPR News
Other public health researchers say testing may be able to catch up, given the increased and growing availability. “I think it (testing) has significantly improved, and certainly from where we started to where we are now, it’s like night and day,” said Michelle Barron, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who specializes in infectious disease at UC Health.
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Apr 30, 2020
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CBS4
“Do you think the drug is working?” Gionet asked Connie Price, the Chief Medical Officer at Denver Health Medical Center [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think so, all early indications are that it is, and we need more data,” Price responded. “It prevents the virus from getting into the cell and replicating.”
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Apr 29, 2020
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Channel 7
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital is one of 150 hospitals around the world participating in the Gilead trial to determine if remdesivir should be given for five days or ten. “We did not see a significant differences in benefit from five days to ten days,” said Thomas Campbell, a professor at the CU School of Medicine and is helping to spearhead UCHealth’s portion of the study.
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Apr 29, 2020
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Fox 31
The trials started in February, and about a month ago, CU became involved. To date, 31 patients from UCHealth have been a part of the trial. “It’s very exciting,” said Thomas Campbell, a professor at the CU School of Medicine and part of a team that’s leading the trial at UCHealth. “This may change things for patients with COVID-19 in that we may now have a proven effective treatment.”
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Apr 29, 2020
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CPR News
Early results from clinical trials of remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has been tested in Colorado hospitals on patients with COVID-19, show that those treated with the drug may be getting better faster, with fewer deaths. “What I can say is that many patients have gotten better,” said Thomas Campbell, professor in the CU School of Medicine. He’s one of the physicians leading remdesivir clinical trials at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.
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Apr 23, 2020
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LiveScience
“This is not a new phenomenon,” said Marc Moss, the division head of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. There are other conditions in which patients are extremely low on oxygen but don’t feel any sense of suffocation or lack of air, Moss told Live Science. For example, some congenital heart defects cause circulation to bypass the lungs, meaning the blood is poorly oxygenated.
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Apr 23, 2020
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Fox 31
As of Thursday, Denver Health had 64 COVID-19 patients. Fourteen of them were on ventilators. And since the beginning of the year, the hospital has treated and discharged 175 coronavirus patients. “We’ve had some extraordinary successes,” said Ivor Douglas, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] the director of the hospital’s medical intensive care unit.
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Apr 22, 2020
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Colorado Springs Indy
“Individuals who have been experiencing homelessness, particularly chronic homelessness, have a high burden of chronic diseases that make them more susceptible to getting a severe infection,” says Heather Cassidy, community engagement director at the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Colorado Springs branch.
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Apr 16, 2020
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Fox21 (Colorado Springs)
“Our homeless neighbors often have high prevalence of chronic conditions and suppressed immune systems that make them particularly vulnerable to a severe course of illness if they get infected with coronavirus,” said Medical Advisor Heather Cassidy [assistant professor of medicine and director of community engagement for the CU School of Medicine Colorado Springs Branch].
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Apr 18, 2020
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Denver Post
Michel Chonchol, a nephrologist at University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said kidney disease interferes with the immune system, making patients on dialysis more vulnerable to all types of infections.
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Apr 16, 2020
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Coloradoan
CU School of Medicine’s 2020 graduating class will begin their residencies in July.
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Apr 22, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“We are being very safe, very clean,” said Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.
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Apr 20, 2020
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Fox 31
Since the pandemic began, UCHealth has added virtual visits to more than 700 clinics. Demand for the service has increased more than 1,000 percent.
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Apr 20, 2020
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KOAA
Erik Wallace, Associate Dean for the Colorado Springs Branch, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, says environment and other social determinants are also factors.
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Apr 29, 2020
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Today
Jeffrey Wallace, a gerontologist with the University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine], tells TODAY’s Al Roker how he believes we can protect vulnerable nursing home residents during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Apr 16, 2020
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CPR News
Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said, so far, “The swab test is really quite good in terms of being able to detect active virus.”
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Apr 18, 2020
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Wall Street Journal
Marc Moss, a professor of medicine [at CU School of Medicine] who has studied health-care-worker burnout, said nurses and doctors who work in the ICU traditionally have high rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome and suicidal thoughts…. Support from the public also helps.
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Apr 18, 2020
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Denver Post
Darlene Tad-y, the Colorado Hospital Association’s vice president for clinical affairs, did not exactly downplay the severity of the problem. In an interview Wednesday, Tad-y, who also practices medicine at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora [and is associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said it speaks volumes that the state’s 81 acute-care hospitals are now operating under a “Crisis Standards of Care” agreement, which lays out protocols for both the present and the worst-case scenario.
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Apr 10, 2020
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Medscape
The findings provide some additional value from data accrued from highly selected populations that consuming isoflavone-containing foods, particularly on a background of a heart-healthy dietary pattern, reduces the risk of developing heart disease, Robert H. Eckel, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
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Apr 13, 2020
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Mother Jones
Carlos Franco-Paredes, a professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s infectious diseases division, emphasized that crowded, enclosed spaces are the opposite of social distancing. By the time ICE quarantines a symptomatic detainee, that person will have likely have already infected others, he said. Those infected people will transmit the virus to others.
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Apr 13, 2020
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Fox 31
Some doctors at National Jewish Health in Denver are in New York this week helping the medical team at a Mount Sinai Hospital care for their COVID-19 patients. Josh Solomon is one of them. He is an associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine] who specializes in pulmonary and critical care. “I’ve of course never seen anything like it,” he said from New York. “They got what we have, times 10.”
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Apr 14, 2020
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The Mercury News
In a time when the pandemic has taken away people’s control over many aspects of their lives, “advanced care planning is one of the things under their control right now,” said Hillary Lum, a geriatrician and professor the University of Colorado.
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Apr 12, 2020
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Fox 31
Typically, these discussions about who should speak for you if you’re ill and how aggressive potentially end-of-life medical care should be are difficult. But the coronavirus pandemic is making them easier, said Dan Matlock, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who specializes in geriatrics.
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Apr 15, 2020
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CBS4
Infectious disease specialist Michelle Barron of UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital says time of exposure remains a big deal. “You still have to have some pretty generous contact time and so if you’re running… you’re fine if you’re passing people and making sure you’re staying some distance apart.”
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Apr 11, 2020
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CPR News
Thomas Campbell, at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, is working on a clinical trial of sarilumab, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The trial was developed jointly by the pharmaceutical companies Regeneron and Sanofi.
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Apr 10, 2020
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Fox 31
“The healthcare system needs to not forget that we saw this stark disparity and make changes to address it going forward,” said Shanta Zimmer, University of Colorado School of Medicine Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion. “We need to make sure that no sectors of our population are left behind.”
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Apr 10, 2020
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CPR News
Marc Moss, head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care for the CU School of Medicine, interviewed (Starts at 24:21 and ends at 33:10).
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Apr 16, 2020
During recent grand rounds for the Department of Medicine, faculty members from the School of Medicine weighed in on ways to combat the inflammation storm in COVID-19.
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Apr 3, 2020
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Medscape
Interview with Marc Bonaca, a cardiologist as well as a vascular medicine specialist at University of Colorado, about one of the hottest topics being presented at the virtual ACC are the results of the VOYAGER PAD trial.
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Apr 6, 2020
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She Knows
The symptoms of RA depend, to some extent, on how far the condition has progressed. According to Kevin Deane, a rheumatologist with UCHealth Rheumatology Clinic-Anschutz Medical Campus, as well as an associate professor of medicine and the William P. Arend Chair for Rheumatology Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the most common symptoms at the onset of RA are pain, stiffness and a feeling of swelling in and around the joints.
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Apr 5, 2020
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Op-ed by Jake Fox, a Colorado Springs native and a fifth-year medical and public health student at CU, and Erik Wallace, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the CU School of Medicine: “Our best recourse as a nation is one that abides by our guiding principles in medicine — as we navigate this crisis together, we should strive to uphold the value of individual lives and minimize death as best we can.”
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Apr 6, 2020
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CPR News
Hillary Lum, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said people should make decisions based on their perception of the quality of life.
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Apr 6, 2020
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Fox4 (Cape Coral, Fla.)
“I think a lot of it is, again, having a physical barrier is actually not such a bad thing,” explained Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.
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Apr 2, 2020
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9News
Four weeks after Colorado announced its first case of COVID-19, we asked UCHealth’s Michelle Barron five important questions.
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Apr 7, 2020
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9News
“It has, for some patients in the past, shown that it might have helped in previous outbreaks of virus infections like Ebola or previous SARS outbreaks,” said University of Colorado Hospital Infectious Disease Specialist David Beckham, adding that it’s unclear how effective plasma transfusions will be against COVID-19.
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Apr 7, 2020
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Fox 31
“When someone gets infected with COVID-19, their body makes an immune response,” UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] infectious disease specialist David Beckham said. Last week, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital became the first in the state to treat COVID-19 patients with a serum made up from the blood, specifically antibodies, from someone who recovered from the disease.
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Apr 7, 2020
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Channel 7
“We are going to study the data to understand if these patients are actually getting better or improving with the treatment," said David Beckham, a UCHealth infectious disease expert. "Right now we don’t know if convalescent serum is going to make COVID-19 patients any better.”
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Apr 6, 2020
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CBS4
“We don’t have great evidence that this is going to work,” said David Beckham, an infectious disease researcher with the CU School of Medicine. He says convalescent plasma has the potential to work in some patients, but he sees it as a stopgap.
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Apr 7, 2020
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AAMC
A pilot test being run by UCHealth, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, shows a typical way that medical institutions plan to carry out those principles. Matthew Wynia, director of the university’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, says that each day, triage teams there get sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scores about every inpatient.
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Apr 7, 2020
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Boise State Public Radio
“You don’t want the individual clinician — the doctor, the nurse — at the bedside trying to make decisions within their own patients about who gets this and who gets that,” added Matt Wynia who directs the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.
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Apr 6, 2020
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KUNC
“There are some folks who might be under the impression that if there's a need to make these kinds of triage decisions that their doctor would be looking at them and saying, “are you worthy of a ventilator or not?” And that’s not the preferred way to do this. Nationally the consensus is that your doctor should be able to advocate for you as their patient,” said Matthew Wynia is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Apr 3, 2020
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Newsweek
The teams have better “situational awareness” of the resources available in nearby hospitals, which can affect decisions about what to do with individual patients. “God forbid someone makes a tragic choice to allocate a resource to one person and the other ends up dying, and then three days later you realize there was another hospital six miles away where we could have transferred them,” says Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.
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Apr 3, 2020
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The Atlantic
“We need to be able to look back and say we made those decisions in a way that maintains the trust of the community, that maintains social cohesion, and allows us to heal,” says Matt Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Anschutz.
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Apr 8, 2020
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9News
“I understand the fear,” UCHealth Rheumatologist Kevin Deane [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said. “However, we don’t know that the medicine works [for COVID-19].”
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Apr 6, 2020
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CPR News
On Monday, Jason Persoff, assistant director of emergency preparedness at the UCHealth hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], too tempered his initial optimism, saying the state’s data “suggests that the curve might, might, be flattening. However, it’s just too early to know for sure.”
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Apr 7, 2020
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Channel 7
The Colorado Hospital Association’s vice president of clinical affairs, Darlene Tad-y, [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said in a statement Tuesday that the message to continue physical distancing was the right one and that the CHA agreed with the state model rather than other models.
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Apr 7, 2020
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CBS4
“There are a lot of models out there. There are many assumptions that go into creating a mathematical model to predict the number of patients we might see who become infected with COVID-19,” said Darlene Tad-y the Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Apr 3, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“There are no medical therapies, there are no drugs we can give these patients,” said Marc Moss, who leads the pulmonology and critical care departments at the University of Colorado medical school
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Mar 28, 2020
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Healio
The benefit of rivaroxaban was “apparent early and continued over time,” Marc P. Bonaca, associate professor and director of vascular research at University of Colorado School of Medicine, said while presenting the results during the virtual American College of Cardiology Scientific Session.
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Mar 29, 2020
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Colorado Sun
Opinion column by Carlos Franco-Paredes, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at CU Anschutz Medical Center: “The prompt release on parole of detainees with medical conditions at risk of severe disease and death due to coronavirus infection may reduce the impact of this outbreak among immigration detention facilities.
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Mar 30, 2020
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Fox17
David Beuther, Chief Medical Information Officer at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine,] says while vapers and smokers are at a greater risk, the risk of developing more severe complications is even greater.
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Apr 2, 2020
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Business Insider
“It’s stressful. It’s really stressful,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. “If this has to happen, there’s nothing about it that will feel right.
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Mar 31, 2020
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Lancaster Online
“We’ve always had the requirement that people get asked about an advance care plan, but now we are taking that incredibly seriously,” said Matthew Wynia, a University of Colorado bioethicist and infectious disease doctor. “Because we need to know if you get much worse, what would you want?”
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Mar 27, 2020
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Kaiser Health News
James Finigan, a pulmonology and critical care specialist at National Jewish Health in Denver [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Theoretically, a CPAP might be enough to get them enough oxygen. But, again, doing it with a mask is more likely to generate an aerosol and create an infectious problem.”
Jeff Sippel, a critical care specialist at UCHealth [and associate professor of clinical practice of medicine at the CU School of Medicine], said BiPAPs could be used for COVID-19 in a closed system without a mask if patients are first fitted with a breathing tube.
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Mar 27, 2020
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CPR News
Ivor Douglas [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] has a hard job that’s only going to get harder. The intensive care pulmonologist is leading the COVID-19 response at Denver Health.
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Mar 31, 2020
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Fox 31
The Problem Solvers sat down digitally with Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital to discuss some “best practices” during this pandemic in shared spaces you can’t avoid.
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Apr 1, 2020
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CBS4
CBS4’s Alan Gionet turned to an expert for some answers, Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “I have a lot of questions about masks, like a lot of people do,” Gionet told Barron.
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Mar 31, 2020
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Channel 7
“From a public standpoint, is there any harm or any potential that it would be helpful? Maybe,” said Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Apr 2, 2020
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CPR News
“Crisis standards of care is not a decision point. It is thrust upon you. You have to make decisions. These are forced choice,” said Matthew Wynia, the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.
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Apr 1, 2020
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Denver Post
“There may be dire circumstances where our resources are unable or are insufficient to provide optimal care to everyone,” said Darlene Tad-y, a physician at the University of Colorado Hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
“This is statewide guidance on how to do triage in the most ethically defensible way,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Apr 2, 2020
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CPR News
“It’s just going to be a matter of getting back on the bike and riding it. Undoubtedly, I’ll look at some references, to make sure my memory serves,” said Rich Altman.
“The medical skills aren’t that different … So the training isn’t specifically, how do you diagnose pneumonia? Because everyone sort of knows that,” said Tyler Anstett.
Brandon Combs is among those gearing up to head into a hospital after working in a UCHealth outpatient clinic in Denver’s Lowry neighborhood for the past several years.
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Mar 31, 2020
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CBS4
Marc Moss appeared with Gov. Jared Polis at a news conference on Monday to emphasize the need for the protective and medical equipment.
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Mar 30, 2020
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Colorado Sun
Marc Moss, who leads the pulmonology and critical care medicine division at the University of Colorado medical school, accompanied Polis during Monday’s news conference….“The COVID patients we are treating are on average in their 40s and 50s and some are as young as 19 years old,” he said.
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Mar 30, 2020
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CBS4
“New patients are being admitted to the hospital at a faster rate than patients are recovering, and as a result the hospital census is steadily increasing, putting even more strain on our capacity and resources,” said Marc Moss from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who joined Polis to talk about the state’s health care crisis.
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Mar 23, 2020
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Worcester Business Journal
“No one diet works for everyone,” said Vicki Catenacci, an associate professor of medicine in endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the University of Colorado.
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Mar 23, 2020
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Denver Post
The processes to avoid spreading the new virus are relatively simple. Staff need to put on their full protective equipment and quickly move the patient to an isolation room, then decide if the patient needs to be tested, stay in the hospital or go home, said Darlene Tad-y, vice president of clinical affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association [and associate professor of medicine for CU School of Medicine].
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Mar 23, 2020
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New York Daily News
Carlos Franco-Paredes, a professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s infectious diseases division, pointed out in an open letter last week that immigration detention facilities could become particularly lethal during the pandemic due to their large population density.
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Mar 20, 2020
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Mother Jones
In a letter published on Thursday, Carlos Franco-Paredes, a professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s infectious diseases division, painted a grim picture of how the coronavirus could affect people in detention: For an immigration detention center that holds 1500 detainees, we can estimate that 500-650 may acquire the infection.
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Mar 24, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“It’s very military-style triage,” said Matthew Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and a national expert on crisis standards of care.
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Mar 24, 2020
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The New York Times
“It would be irresponsible at this point not to get ready to make tragic decisions about who lives and who dies,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.
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Mar 21, 2020
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NPR
“So if you had someone who was an upstanding member of the local community or a big donor to the hospital or a well-known politician versus a clerk at the 7-Eleven or a homeless person,” said Matthew Wynia, an infectious disease and public health specialist who directs the University of Colorado's Center for Bioethics and Humanities, each of those patients should be evaluated equally.
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Mar 19, 2020
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Los Angeles Times
“Everyone’s on red alert and gaming things out and saying, ‘What are we going to do if…?’” said Matthew K. Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.
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Mar 23, 2020
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Channel 7
“You gain a lot of time with the transport to a large commercial lab in another location and that’s probably the greatest savings in terms of why it’s so much faster,” said Stephen Frankel, Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs at National Jewish Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Mar 20, 2020
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9News
While testing supply shortages have limited that number, Connie Savor Price, [Denver Health’s] Chief Medical Officer [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the in-house testing has allowed her staff to save on an ever-dwindling supply of personal protective equipment.
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Mar 25, 2020
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Colorado Sun
Jean Kutner, chief medical officer for UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, said pulmonologists at Children’s Hospital Colorado have offered to help.
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Mar 23, 2020
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Denver Post
When caring for a person who could have COVID-19, providers should wear a mask, an eye shield, gloves and a gown, said Michelle Barron, medical director for infection control and prevention at University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Mar 23, 2020
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The New York Times
Shanta Zimmer, senior associate dean for education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said the school decided that 184 third-year medical students would not return to their clinical rotations starting last Monday, for at least four weeks.
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Mar 13, 2020
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The Independent (London)
Matthew Wynia, director of the Centre for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Business Insider “a surge in confirmed coronavirus cases could also lead to a shortfall of medical supplies like ventilators, as well as the staff required to properly use such devices.
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Mar 13, 2020
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CPR News
Jeff Wallace, a geriatrician at the Multidisciplinary Centers on Aging at CU Anschutz Medical Campus, said restricting access early is one of the things Colorado has learned from the outbreaks at nursing facilities in Washington state that left 19 dead and dozens infected.
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Mar 16, 2020
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CPR News
Many doctors aren’t equipped to test in their private offices because they don’t have the facility requirements — including negative-pressure rooms to keep the virus contained — to provide them. “If I wasn’t so engaged and involved in this every day, I’m not sure I would understand it,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at University of Colorado Hospital.
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Mar 17, 2020
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CPR News
“Everything” hinges on testing as hospitals respond to the upswing in possible coronavirus patients, said Connie Price, chief medical officer at Denver Health, who is also a professor of infectious diseases [at CU School of Medicine].
Jason Persoff, a physician [and associate professor medicine at CU School of Medicine] leading COVID response efforts at another large Colorado hospital system, UCHealth, shared somewhat similar concerns.
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Mar 9, 2020
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Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News
“We saw that adenoma detection rate significantly improved by [an absolute] 3.2% among lower-performing colonoscopists, but did not significantly improve among all colonoscopists or among higher-performing ones,” said Anna Duloy, a fellow in advanced therapeutic endoscopy at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Mar 10, 2020
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CBS4
Linda was facing surgery to remove the diseased lobe, or a lung transplant. But Ali Musani, interventional pulmonologist at University Hospital, offered her another option. “There is no incision or cutting of the chest wall required,” Musani said.
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Mar 11, 2020
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MSN
While there’s a strong focus on immunizations to combat potentially infectious diseases, patients at travel clinics are given advice to help them during every step of their journey, including how best to prevent diarrhea, mosquito bites and blood clots on long distance flights, said Andrés Henao, travel clinic director at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Mar 10, 2020
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STAT
Matthew K. Wynia, professor of medicine and public health and director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and co-author of this article states: “The emergence of a new infectious disease that rapidly spreads around the world, like Covid-19, makes disaster planning experts move into overdrive."
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Mar 9, 2020
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Yahoo! Finance
Matthew K. Wynia, a doctor and the director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities told the Daily Beast that anxiety about incurring massive expenses is the opposite of what is wanted with the emergence of a potential pandemic.
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Mar 6, 2020
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9News
At some point in your life, you may have heard someone say, ‘You better put a coat on, or you’ll catch a cold.’ Maybe you’ve even said that yourself, but is it true? “So they are right, but probably for the wrong reason,” said David Beuther, a pulmonologist with National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Mar 6, 2020
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CBS4
The threat of infection from coronavirus, is especially concerning for people with compromised immune systems. Thomas Campbell works in the CU Cancer Center, his advice to patients about COVID-19 is simple.
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Mar 12, 2020
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Denver Post
Both are essentially orders for a person to stay out of contact with other people in an attempt to curb the spread of an infectious disease, said Robert Belknap, an infectious disease doctor at Denver Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Mar 11, 2020
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KOAA
Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert with UCHealth, says a virtual visit is a good way to assess a viral infection if you’re looking for care advice on things like a cold, the flu or even COVID-19.
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Mar 5, 2020
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CPR News
“Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands, wipe down surfaces with sanitizing wipes. Keep your phone clean too,” said Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Mar 10, 2020
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CPR News
“It is a huge concern,” said Darlene Tad-y, the hospital association’s vice president of clinical affairs [and associate professor of medicine for CU School of Medicine].
Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital, pointed to other disease outbreaks as a demonstration of what can happen.
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Mar 4, 2020
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CPR News
“Doctor Lily” is Doctor Lilia Cervantes, with Denver Health [and CU School of Medicine]. She’s been treating dozens of undocumented people with kidney failure for years. Cervantes has seen the vicious cycle they have to deal with — going in and out of the emergency department.
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Feb 27, 2020
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Yahoo Lifestyle
Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], clarifies to Yahoo Lifestyle why the guide might not exactly be relevant to the general public in preparing for coronavirus outbreaks: “These CDC guidelines apply to healthcare workers who wear respirators — not the standard masks for the public at large.”
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Feb 28, 2020
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Rolling Stone
And Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth in Colorado, says that the virus can’t survive in the conditions under which packages are generally transported.
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Feb 28, 2020
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CPR News
“The reality is that people don’t actually need the masks,” said Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Mar 3, 2020
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U.S. News & World Report
“The current outbreak is an opportune time to consider adding travel history to the routine. The COVID outbreak is clearly moving at a tremendous pace, with new clusters appearing daily,” said Trish Perl, chief of infectious diseases and geographic medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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Mar 3, 2020
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Healthline
Trish Perl, chief of infectious diseases and geographic medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and Connie Price of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, write today in a commentary Trusted Source in the Annals of Internal Medicine that travel history should be collected alongside other routine patient information, such as temperature and blood pressure.
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Mar 5, 2020
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Kaiser Health News
“You definitely don’t want people making those decisions in the heat of the moment, when they haven’t slept and they haven’t eaten and there’s no air conditioning,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Mar 2, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“That’s the way hospitals operate,” said Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Mar 3, 2020
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Department of Medicine
The Department of Medicine’s 8th annual Research Day is now being held remotely via Zoom (not in person). Join us on Monday, April 6 beginning at 10am at https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/435270995
Abstracts and posters will also be posted online on the Research Day website.
Visit the 2020 Research Day event page for more information.
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Aug 30, 2019
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5280
Dr. Rowan spoke about her work on a local HIV task force to expand testing and treatment of the virus and about other efforts by the Colorado medical community to combat HIV.
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Feb 23, 2020
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Colorado Springs Gazette
The Modeling the Way Community Leadership Award, for an LPP alumni “whose leadership in their professional career has motivated their colleagues, friends, family, and/or community members to get involved,” went to Erik Wallace, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Colorado Springs branch, associate dean.
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Feb 10, 2020
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Inside Sources
Eric Campbell, a professor of medicine and director of research at the University of Colorado medical school’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, agrees that Jeuveau’s business model is “something that is of concern.”
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Feb 24, 2020
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Eric Campbell, a professor of medicine and bioethics expert at the University of Colorado, said it’s not surprising that global drug companies would be involved with a major research university such as Penn.
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Feb 26, 2020
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Medscape
Also commenting on the study for theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology, William R. Hiatt, professor of medicine, division of cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, said that, “while potentially interesting, I think it is too early to determine if cocoa is clinically effective to treat claudication.”
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Feb 27, 2020
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Denver Post
“It’s appropriate to say we will probably see more cases in the U.S. and throughout the world, but I don’t think that should set off an alarm,” said Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.
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Feb 26, 2020
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9News
Michelle Barron, the director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth, answers your questions about the coronavirus.
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Feb 26, 2020
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9News
We asked a similar question of Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth, about what social isolation would look like: “Most of it would probably involve limiting big public gatherings, so if a Phish concert was happening, perhaps that would be asked to be canceled.
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Feb 21, 2020
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9News
UCHealth Director of Infection Prevention Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] discusses the impact of coronavirus vs. the flu this winter.
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Feb 18, 2020
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CU Anschutz Today
Perhaps the future of modern, transformative medicine begins with a bridge to the past.
“Our genes are as old as the universe – everything that proceeded us is now. In Navajo culture, the past is the now,” said Diné (Navajo) traditional healer David Begay, PhD.
Begay, an associate professor from the University of New Mexico, was recently invited to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus by Katrina Claw, PhD, a Diné (Navajo) geneticist, to lead a Native American ceremony for Claw’s new genomics lab in the Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine.
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Feb 12, 2020
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Healio
Connie N. Hess, interventional cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado and clinician-scientist at CPC Clinical Research, and colleagues analyzed 393,017 patients (mean age, 69 years; 41% women) from the Premier Healthcare Database who underwent peripheral artery revascularization between 2009 and September 2015.
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Feb 10, 2020
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KTBS (Shreveport, La)
New research suggests doing so can lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and resting heart rate. But Andrew Freeman, a cardiologist at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says you can defeat the purpose of intermittent fasting if you’re not careful.
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Feb 11, 2020
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Next Avenue
“Total management of the disease should include diet, exercise, regular cholesterol testing and glucose monitoring,” said Jane E.B. Reusch, a cardio-endocrinologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. She also practices at the Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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Feb 7, 2020
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MSN
“Overall, the literature suggests people with sleep disorders have a 25-30 percent higher risk of developing prediabetes or type 2 diabetes,” says Robert H. Eckel, professor of medicine emeritus in the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, and president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association.
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Feb 11, 2020
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Yahoo Lifestyle
“We quarantine all the time — children with lice stay home from school and people with the flu don’t go to work,” Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
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Jan 31, 2020
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Medscape
“These patients’ voices remind us that we can learn a great deal about clinical care and about ourselves by listening to the people we meet as patients,” Abraham Nussbaum, associate professor of psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, Aurora, write in an accompanying editorial.
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Feb 5, 2020
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La Voz
“It (the virus) was finally genetically coded by the end of December,” Gaby Frank, Medical Director for the Biocontainment Unit at Denver Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine, said]. “On December 31st, they identified that it was the coronavirus.”
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Jan 30, 2020
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9News
“The goal is to prevent it from going beyond the borders but obviously that can be challenging because people can travel,” said Michelle Barron, an Infectious Disease Specialist at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Feb 4, 2020
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Colorado Sun
“For personalized medicine to truly be successful in the United States, we need to have payers on board,” said Kathleen Barnes, director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Feb 6, 2020
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CU Connections
For decades, the Petri dish has been used to culture cells and learn more about disease. What would happen if a Petri dish was no longer needed because human tissue could be replicated? Would new results advance biomedical research?
That question is what Chelsea Magin and her team are working on, developing cell culture platforms that mimic lung tissue.
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Jan 29, 2020
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Healthcare Finance
The health industry should be excited about the advancements in EHR technologies, says Larry Allen, the medical director of advanced heart failure at University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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Jan 24, 2020
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Medpage Today
Robert Eckel, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, who was not involved in the research, said the large number of human insulin users was unusual. Still, “with all of the limitations of retrospective analysis of medical records, the results are not surprising,” he told MedPage Today via email.
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Jan 27, 2020
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CPR News
“Given the number of cases that we’re seeing in China and other parts of the world, it won’t be unexpected if we do have a positive case at some point,” said Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 24, 2020
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9News
“It’s actually a cold virus,” said Michelle Barron, medical director of Infection, Prevention, and Control at UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 24, 2020
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STAT
“Rapid control of an out-of-control situation is the default in ER settings. That’s definitely not ideal for someone in a psychiatric crisis,” said Matthew Wynia, a physician and bioethicist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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Jan 29, 2020
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Department of Medicine
The University of Colorado Department of Medicine has selected the third cohort of recipients of its Program for Academic Clinician Educators (PACE).
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Jan 21, 2020
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Fox 31
“We’re not entirely clear whether we need to activate those centers for this type of infection yet. We are ready to do so and we have available protocols to be able to provide experimental treatments,” said Connie Price.
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Jan 22, 2020
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CBS4
“As of now it has been estimated as the same severity as that of the flu,” said Gaby Frank, Medical Director of the Bio Containment Unit at Denver Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 22, 2020
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9News
Cells in a coronavirus are not unusual, according to the medical director of Infection, Prevention, and Control at UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital, Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 17, 2020
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Targeted Oncology
Robert C. Doebele, an associate professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at the School of Medicine, University of Colorado, shares his thoughts on what the next steps are for entrectinib (Rozlytrek) in patients with ROS1-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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Jan 21, 2020
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MD Magazine
“Whereas prior large-scale epidemiological studies have attributed changes in asthma-related outcomes to sex hormones only by proxy (i.e., puberty or menstrual period), the results from this study, by directly measuring serum levels, significantly strengthen causality,” wrote Fernando Holguin.
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Jan 20, 2020
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The Gazette (Colorado Springs)
Erik Wallace, associate dean of the Colorado Springs Branch of the CU School of Medicine, one year ago founded the Colorado Springs Firearms Safety Think Tank.
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Jan 11, 2020
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The Advertiser-Tribune (Tiffin, Ohio)
Ohio Wesleyan student Ben Arnold (left) celebrates the presentation of his summer research project. Arnold worked at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the laboratory of Raphael Nemenoff.
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Jan 9, 2020
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OncLive
Thomas W. Flaig, professor, associate dean for clinical research, Genitourinary Cancer Program, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado, discusses the utility of immune checkpoint inhibitors in advanced bladder cancer.
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Jan 15, 2020
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CBS4
“It is absolutely that long-term relationship that allows patients to be successful,” said endocrinologist Leigh Perreault [visiting associate clinical professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Jan 16, 2020
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Healio
“We know that our younger patients are often still working; many of them have young families,” Laura Melton, medical director for supportive oncology at University of Colorado Cancer Center at University of Colorado Hospital, said.
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Jan 14, 2020
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CPR News
And in general, the rules have been a success, according to Matt Wynia, the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus and an early supporter of the state regulations.
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Jan 13, 2020
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Department of Medicine
The University of Colorado Department of Medicine annual State of the Department talk was presented by David A. Schwartz, MD, Professor of Medicine and Immunology and Robert W. Schrier Chair of Medicine.
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Jan 13, 2020
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Cathy Beuten
Little-known and often misdiagnosed, this fatal lung disease has met its match at CU Anschutz. David A. Schwartz, MD along with his colleagues in the Department of Medicine and across the globe are changing that.
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Dec 11, 2019
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P&T Community
Internationally renowned pulmonologist Kevin K. Brown, MD, has been named the new Chair of the Department of Medicine at National Jewish Health.
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Dec 6, 2019
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Medscape
The study by David R. Saxon, an endocrinologist at the University of Colorado, found that overall, only 1.3% of eligible patients filled a prescription for an antiobesity medication, and prescribing rates ranged from 0.6% to 2.9%.
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Dec 2, 2019
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The Denver Post
“For most people, it doesn’t make a difference,” said James Maloney, a pulmonologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Nov 26, 2019
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KSBY News
At least 30 million Americans suffer from eating disorders.
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Nov 25, 2019
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NPR
“Pharmaceutical drugs are regulated by the FDA, so the manufacturing has to meet high standards, so you can be sure that when you take it you are getting the amount listed on the label, and it is safe and free of impurities,” says Cecilia Low Wang.
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Nov 19, 2019
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Radiology Business
“Our proposed diagnostic criteria better capture the full spectrum of people suffering from COPD,” said James Crapo.
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Nov 19, 2019
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CBS Denver
Hannah’s pulmonologist, Jennifer Taylor-Cousar [and professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care], gets emotional, too. “It is truly a miracle for her and for many, many people,” said Taylor-Cousar.
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Nov 16, 2019
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Medpage Today
Fewer CV events for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
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Nov 12, 2019
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Fox 31
“Ten years ago, I don’t think we knew anything about burn pits. I don’t think we even knew the term burn pits,” said Cecile Rose, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].
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Nov 11, 2019
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CBS Denver
A University of Colorado Cancer Center oncologist is described as one of the leading minds in lung cancer.
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Nov 6, 2019
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Medical News Today
The first large-scale cohort study of its kind looked at the link between waist circumference in later life and the risk of dementia in a population of older Asian adults.
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Nov 5, 2019
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PBS.org
For decades, art therapy has been used to help patients. But today, people like Moss are looking at how it can also help health care providers.
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Nov 4, 2019
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Healio
Bryan R. Haugen received the 2019 Sydney H. Ingbar award during the Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association.
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Nov 4, 2019
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Healio
“ObesityWeek is really the central hub for science on obesity treatment and weight management,” Paul MacLean, professor at CU Anschutz Medical Campus and an ObesityWeek program committee co-chair, told Endocrine Today.
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Nov 4, 2019
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Cardiovascular Business
“The benefits of DFT (defibrillation testing) have not routinely been demonstrated,” Ryan T. Borne, of CU Anschutz Medical Campus, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Network Open.
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Nov 1, 2019
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WQAD News
Oncologist Dan Pollyea did have one option: an FDA approved clinical trial testing a low dose chemo combined with the pill venetoclax, a drug that targets leukemia stem cells.
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Oct 26, 2019
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ABC News
“What have I done?” James R. Burton Jr. thought to himself in disbelief. As a young medical student, he had taken the Hippocratic Oath and pledged “first, do no harm.” But here he was, purposefully infecting one of his patients with hepatitis C.
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Oct 25, 2019
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Gilmore Health
The co-authors of the study are Sam X. Li and Catherine Lozupone from the Medical Campus of the University of Colorado Anschutz.
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Oct 24, 2019
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Medscape
Palliative care doctor Katherine Morrison, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, remembers when she was asked to talk to a group of internal medicine residents who had been dealing with some “difficult things” on their rotation.
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Sep 19, 2019
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CU School of Medicine
Patricia Gabow, MD, professor emerita of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and former CEO of Denver Health, has today been named the recipient of the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for Advancement of Health Care.
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