In a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, principal investigator Matthew Greenhawt, MD, a professor of pediatric allergy and immunology in the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and his co-researchers found that annual health care costs were significantly higher among children who don’t receive care from an allergist for peanut allergy (PA) compared with those who do.
Kevin D. Deane, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and chair in rheumatology research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, advises physicians to keep in mind other conditions linked with increased risk for severe COVID-19, including advanced age, heart, lung, or kidney problems, and autoimmune diseases.
The uncertainty may lead people to see autoimmune disease as “an uncontrollable hobgoblin,” says Dr. Duane Pearson, a rheumatologist with UCHealth Rheumatology Clinic-Anschutz Medical Campus and Professor of Medicine with the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
And if you experience more serious symptoms, such as wheezing, chest discomfort or pain, or shortness of breath, see your doctor right away, says Fernando Holguin, MD, professor of medicine and director of the asthma clinical research program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Those symptoms are more commonly linked to other complications, such as pneumonia and asthma.
“There are several patients exactly like Tawny who are on their way to living when they are hit with this deal-breaker,” says Manali Kamdar, MD, clinical director of lymphoma services for University of Colorado Medicine. The diagnosis creates “a huge break in what happens in living a normal life.”
“Midwife means 'with woman,'” Alvarez noted, clearing up any confusion about the terminology. But most people do think of midwives as women. There are only around 100 male midwives working in the United States. Soon there will be one more — Alvarez is the only male student in the nurse midwife program at the University of Colorado College of Nursing on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
On October 10, the Colorado School of Public Health released a modeling report for COVID-19 that described the disease's outlook in the state as uncertain for the rest of the year, given the potential for new variants to arise.
Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, director, the Thoracic Oncology Clinical and Clinical Research Programs, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, discusses toxicities observed with sunvozertinib (DZD9008) in EGFR Exon 20–Mutated non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
