Election Means Health Care Law Keeps Moving Forward In Colorado
The election results put an end to the threat of a Republican repeal of the health care law, but not to the public’s emotional response to it.
View ArticleChecking Insurance Ratings Can Save Your Life
Coloradans can now add another factor to choosing health insurance plans besides cost alone: Which one will do a better job of keeping you healthy?
View ArticleHave Some Questions About The Colorado Health Exchange? Here Are Some Answers
Colorado’s health exchange – due to come online in October 2013 – is expecting 960,000 customers within three years of startup.
View ArticleSafety Grades Rise For Colorado Hospitals: One-third Garner 'A's; None Fail
The number of Colorado hospitals receiving an “A” grade for patient safety nearly doubled in the past six months, from seven to 13.
View ArticleHospitals Tell Workers: Get A Flu Shot Or Get Fired
Across Colorado, hospitals are demanding all employees get flu shots or be fired.
View ArticleColorado Hospitals On A $3.4 Billion Construction Boom
$3.4 billion. That’s the total value of some 50 hospital construction projects occurring all over the state, a Colorado Public News examination has found.
View ArticlePut A Lid On It: Helmet Use Reducing Brain Injuries On The Slopes
When Sonny Flock’s ski hit the edge of a hidden rock, he was thrown into the air. His body slammed onto the stone with a sharp crack.
View ArticleA Job Market Catch-22 For Newly Graduated Registered Nurses: You Need Experience
Three years ago, Sara Chapman left a career in mechanical engineering to follow her heart.
View ArticleDecades Of Cuts Puts Colorado In Mental Health Crisis
Nearly every day in Colorado, someone having a mental health crisis tries to seek help at a hospital emergency room. There’s only one problem: ER doctors are able to diagnose and treat a broken foot,...
View ArticleUniversal Health Care For Colorado? New Plan May Put It To A Vote
State Sen. Irene Aguilar wants Coloradans to imagine a day when 80 percent of them see their health care costs drop.
View ArticleHeavy Drinking A Drag On Colorado Health
High alcohol consumption is dragging down health in many Colorado counties, from Denver to the mountains.
View ArticleAs Suicides Outnumber Homicides, Will Safer Firearms Help?
Coloradans are four times more likely to die of suicide by gun than homicide by gun.
View ArticleStand Up Colorado! Prolonged Sitting May Carve Years Off Life
Evidence suggests that people who sit for hours at a time have an increased potential of developing life-shortening diseases.
View ArticleHealth Care Hot-Spotting Targets The Sickest Patients
Rebecca Yanes recently joined an elite club. It’s not a club she wanted to join. In fact, it’s one that some health professionals across Colorado and the country are working to shut down.
View ArticleColoradans With Disabilities Connect In 'Second Life' For Social, Health Perks
Using her avatar, Alice Krueger moves around a spacious living room filled with her friends. The party is laid back.
View ArticleCancer Concerns With Colorado's Drilling, Fracking Boom
A former president of the Colorado Medical Society calls the current hydraulic fracturing boom in the state’s oil and gas industry an “experiment in motion” for the public at large.
View ArticleHealth Officials Worry As E-Cigarettes Enter Colorado
The arrival of electronic cigarettes has raised a red flag for health officials and others who worry the activity of “vaping” nicotine will hook young people into a new addiction that could last a...
View Article‘Walk With A Doc’ Hits Its Stride Across Colorado
Every Saturday morning, Shirley Epstein puts on her walking shoes and heads to a tree-lined park to join dozens of friends, and her doctor, for a long walk.
View ArticleGreater Setbacks Eyed For Oil And Gas Drilling In Flood's Aftermath
Colorado state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush says she plans to take up the issue of water contamination and greater setbacks for oil and gas wells from waterways in the wake of Septembers devastating flooding.
View ArticleFor In-Vitro, New Freezing Process Has 'Changed Everything'
In-vitro fertilization babies who are conceived from frozen, rather than fresh, embryos have a remarkably better chance of survival than from the method most used in the past, according to a new study...
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