Columnist Laura Pritchett found the weight of emotional and physical symptoms of illness all around her drove home the importance of saving for a long-anticipated family trip.
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“What’d I Miss?”: Does living well for loved ones include rice cakes?
In “What’d I Miss?” Myra, who survived a long coma, considers how living a healthy life for loved ones means more than the romantic notion of dying for them.
Posted inEvents
Watch: Colorado health insurance experts discuss open enrollment
The Colorado Sun talks about health insurance, open enrollment, shopping tips, ways to get the most out of your plan and more.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Nicolais: John Fetterman’s aphasia was all too familiar to me
Watching the U.S. Senate candidate from Pennsylvania struggle reminded me of a time when it was difficult for me to find the right words
Posted inOpinion Columns
Zornio: Improving awareness of breast density can help reduce breast cancer mortality rates
Colorado is ahead of the curve in many ways, but lawmakers can do more to remove barriers to screening access, especially for uninsured women
Posted inNews, Transportation
Doctors, nurses ask Jefferson County officials to take action on leaded aviation gas at Rocky Mountain airport
By Luke Zarzecki, The Westminster Window A group of doctors sent Jefferson County commissioners a letter and a petition signed by 35 health care professionals asking the elected officials to act on leaded fuel at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. The call to action comes as RMMA ranks 63rd on the top 100 lead-emitting airports […]
Posted inOpinion
Nicolais: Demaryius Thomas could not outrun the “minor” injuries that led to his death
My enduring memory of former Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas is watching him streak across the middle of the field, catching a slant route from Tim Tebow on the first play of overtime, stiff-arming one defender, and out-running the rest to win a playoff game in 2012. What Thomas could not outrun were the […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Zornio: COVID vaccine misinformation is rampant. But when in doubt, parents can still turn to their pediatricians.
More than 18 million children under age 5 in America are now eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 according to the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There’s just one problem: Amid rampant misinformation and perceived delay, more than half of parents surveyed with kids under age 5 report not […]
Posted inHealth, News
Colorado Supreme Court tosses $300,000 hospital bill for promised $1,300 tab
Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a woman who expected to pay about $1,300 for spinal fusion surgery but was billed more than $300,000 by a suburban Denver hospital that included charges it never disclosed she might be liable for. This week’s ruling in favor of Lisa French, who underwent two surgeries in […]
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Doctors are uneasy as Colorado collects providers’ diversity data
By Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News Shaunti Meyer, a certified nurse-midwife and medical director at STRIDE Community Health Center in Colorado, doesn’t usually disclose her sexual orientation to patients. But at times it feels appropriate. After telling a transgender patient that she is a lesbian, Meyer learned the woman had recently taken four other trans […]