Health
Eight months ago I started microdosing shrooms to relieve crippling anxiety and depression. It’s working.
After limited progress with prescriptions and talk therapy, psilocybin dramatically sped up the healing decades after a sibling's suicide
Lakewood residents at elevated risk of cancer cases from Terumo medical sterilization plant, EPA says
Toxic ethylene oxide has been released from the facility for years, and could cause cancers above normal rates, federal officials warn.
Former foster kids started a new Colorado nonprofit to help young people. TikTok is taking it nationwide.
The new group is using lived experience to connect. “We’re not professionals. We’re experts.”
Food trucks are helping keep Grand Junction kids fed while school’s out for summer
About half the students in Mesa County Valley School District are eligible for free lunch. The Lunch Lizard food truck is helping make sure they get them in summer.
Officially, heat deaths are not very common in Colorado. The reality is more complicated.
Colorado sees only a handful of heat-related deaths per year, but the statistics don’t capture heat’s more pernicious effects
Judge temporarily blocks Wyoming abortion ban on day it took effect
Four Wyoming women and two nonprofits sued Monday claiming the new trigger law violates several rights guaranteed by the state constitution
Volunteers fan out over Boulder to record time, temp and humidity for scientists tracking climate trends nationwide
Data collected by the annual heat mapping project, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, helps communities combat extreme heat, which can have greater impact on economically and socially vulnerable people.
About 25 people age 14 and younger get abortions in Colorado each year
Those numbers are expected to rise as states surrounding Colorado enact further abortion restrictions
Researchers at CU-Anschutz are trying to crack the code on long COVID by looking at T cells
A study suggests using an antiviral drug like Paxlovid may help those with lingering COVID symptoms
Report that oil field methane emissions are down by half is wrong, Front Range cities with own pollution monitors say
Broomfield, Boulder County, Erie and Longmont are tracking air pollution with their own network of ground-level sensors
Colorado voters will decide in November whether to decriminalize magic mushrooms
The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Thursday that the supporters of Initiative 58 had turned in enough signatures to qualify for the upcoming statewide ballot
Metro Denver’s homeless population grew by 12.8% in two years, survey finds
The point-in-time count, which captures homelessness on a single night, shows 784 more people became homeless regionally during the pandemic
Colorado has added nearly 500,000 people to its Medicaid rolls since 2020. What happens when the emergency order ends?
The department estimates that more than 455,000 people will lose coverage because they will no longer qualify when the public health emergency expires.
Three-digit mental health crisis line goes live this weekend. But Colorado officials are still working on area code issues.
For those with Colorado area codes, calls to the new 988 hotline will get routed to the state’s crisis network. That won’t happen, though, for people with out-of-state area codes.
Colorado mental health providers say they were “blindsided” again by Medicaid policies
New rules about the supervision of counselors working toward their licenses could worsen the workforce shortage, private practice therapists say
Environmental group sues to get EPA to crack down on Colorado’s record ozone violations
Center for Biological Diversity argues the state can do much more to limit oil and gas drilling, and the feds approved weak solutions.
Colorado health insurance prices set to jump next year — at least for some
Premium rates could increase 11% on average statewide for people buying insurance on their own, but regulators say the Colorado Option will provide some relief
Slow loss of obstetrics care forces rural Coloradans into long drives, or long stays, when babies arrive
Just 54% of rural Colorado counties have obstetric services available. This means people must drive long distances for prenatal care and to deliver their babies.
New EPA guidelines on PFAS “forever chemicals” put Frisco far over drinking water limits
Radically lowered guidelines have state health officials searching for other cities with levels of the chemicals considered dangerous.
Colorado’s legislative efforts are not enough to solve its Front Range ozone problem
Laws dealing with diesel buses, emissions notifications and free public transit during months when ground-level ozone is worst won't do much to improve air quality, experts say