Colorado this month became one of the first states in the nation to let pharmacists prescribe HIV prevention drugs, part of a public health effort to curb rising infection rates nearly a decade after breakthroughs in medicine that can stop HIV’s spread. Starting this week, pharmacies can begin offering the daily preventative pill or an […]
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Colorado’s rural pharmacies wrestle against big business to remain community cornerstones
CHEYENNE WELLS – Ted Billinger Jr. closed his pharmacy in this prairie town on March 13, 2019, as the worst storm on record hit Colorado. He delivered a prescription for a child with the flu and one to the local nursing home, went home, had a heart attack in his backyard and died. For nearly […]
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Colorado researchers are racing to find an antiviral drug that could save people with the new coronavirus
Almost a week after the new coronavirus shut down the University of Colorado medical campus and booted Jed Lampe from his lab, he got the call he had been waiting for Thursday afternoon. Lampe and two of his fellow researchers received special permission from their department chair and the dean of the Skaggs School of […]
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Colorado wants to let pharmacists write prescriptions for HIV prevention drugs
First it was birth-control pills, then smoking-cessation medications. Now, Colorado is on its way to becoming one of the first states in the country to allow people to skip the doctor’s office and get prescriptions for drugs that prevent HIV infection at the pharmacy. The move comes as more than 400 Coloradans are diagnosed with […]
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In Denver, a binge drinking capital, the sober curious movement is gaining popularity
Erin Spradlin has never landed in a drunk tank, gotten a DUI or gone to rehab. Still, she drank too much — usually four cocktails or beers or glasses of wine, pretty much every day. “We would drink at home. We would drink when we went out,” said Spradlin, 39, who lives with her husband […]
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Colorado researchers are getting mice drunk to study alcoholism and genetics in humans
The two mice are the same amount of drunk, which is to say, a lot. Both are wobbly on their little legs, and both are moving slower than normal. But while one is feeling so sauced that it can’t turn itself over when a lab technician puts it on its back, the other is scurrying […]