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ADHD Medication Shortage Continues as Diagnoses Surge

The continuing shortage of controlled stimulants, such as Adderall and Ritalin, has created a frustrating “yo-yo scenario” of providers and patients trying to find the right medications when they’re needed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The crisis has no clear end in sight.

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First Lady Visits Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research

Author Devin Lynn | Publish Date April 23, 2024

On April 20, First Lady Jill Biden toured labs and met with researchers at the Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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Q&A with the 2024 Colorado School of Public Health Convocation Student Speaker, Miranda Dally

Miranda Dally, MS, research instructor and DrPH candidate at the Colorado School of Public Health’s Center for Health, Work and Environment and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, was chosen to be the 2024 graduation student speaker. We sat down with Miranda to learn more about why she was selected, her future plans, and what her convocation speech might include.


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Human Trafficking: It’s Happening in Colorado

What is human trafficking? Could you recognize it if you saw something suspicious? What are the signs that someone is being trafficked? What if it was one of your patients? What do you do?


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New Study Shows LGBT Adults Face More Discrimination in Health Care

A recent study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a nonpartisan health policy research organization, reveals that LGBT patients face discrimination at higher rates than non-LGBT patients.


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Multi-Campus Effort Aims to Regenerate Arthritic Joints

Osteoarthritis, a painful degenerative disease that affects 32.5 million Americans, slowly degrades buffering cartilage until joints grind together bone-on-bone. With no existing effective regenerative therapy, treatments are limited to anti-inflammatory injections and, ultimately, expensive joint replacement surgery.


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Patient Care    Liver Transplant    Endocrinology

Ever-Rising Fatty Liver Disease Gets Its First Drug and a New Name

A drug that targets liver scarring from fatty liver disease gained Food and Drug Administration accelerated approval in March, marking the first-ever drug specifically for the disease to get the FDA’s nod. Experts hope the medication, designated a “breakthrough therapy,” proves to be a sign of more treatments to come.


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Community    Alumni

Alumna Erica Elliott, MD, Chronicles Her Search for Life’s Purpose in New Memoir

Erica Elliott, MD, had already lived a rich life by the time she enrolled at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1979, at age 31, and she writes about it all in vivid, unflinching detail in her new memoir, “From Mountains to Medicine: Scaling the Heights in Search of My Calling,” which came out in February.


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AuthorGreg Glasgow | Publish DateApril 19, 2024
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CU Anschutz In the News

Kaiser Health News

Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year

Kaiser Health News
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

In its latest guidelines on colon cancer, the Cancer Network panel noted that not everyone with a risky gene variant gets sick from the drug, and that lower dosing for patients carrying such a variant could rob them of a cure or remission. Many doctors on the panel, including the University of Colorado School of Medicine oncologist Wells Messersmith, have said they have never witnessed a 5-FU death.

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Colorado Public Radio

What’s it like to retire at altitude? Colorado seniors weigh in

Colorado Public Radio
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

Dr. Benjamin Honigman is a retired University of Colorado School of Medicine who has spent his career studying the impacts of altitude on the human body. He’s currently the chair of an advisory group with the High Altitude Research Center at the CommonSpirit St. Anthony Summit Hospital in Frisco. “[The] High Altitude Research Center is involved in a project that we call the Healthy Summit Project, and what we're trying to do is determine what the impact of living at eight to 10,000 feet in Summit County is on common diseases. Diseases such as heart disease or lung disease, diabetes, sleep disorders, those sorts of things,” he said.

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Mashable

California paid millions to access a mental health app. It wasn't safe for users.

Mashable
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

Dr. Matt Mishkind, a researcher who studies technological innovation in behavioral health as deputy director of the University of Colorado's Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center, said the failure to disclose issues or negative outcomes in a project like California's may lead to further user harm, if consumers are never informed of the possible risks of using a platform. Mishkind was not involved in Tech Suite or familiar with it prior to speaking to Mashable. 

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Associated Press

Young adults with migraine, other nontraditional risk factors may have higher stroke risk

Associated Press
Publish DateMarch 29, 2024

“We wanted to understand which risk factors were the top contributors to stroke risk among young adults,” said study lead author Michelle Leppert, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., FAHA, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado.

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