A new study looking at the survival and stages of cancer has found that people living in poor neighborhoods have a greater risk of dying after cancer than people with higher socioeconomic status.
Results of a new University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine study are raising concerns regarding the nation's children suffering from developmental delays. An early intervention program run by all 50 states is available for children under age three but it is not being utilized, especially for African-American children. The study published May 26 in Pediatrics.
According to researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, new understanding about snake proteins could lead to understanding how other animals including humans accomplish aerobic respiration, and also contribute new insight into protein function and evolution important for human health.
A $3 million gift from George Wiegers establishes the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Depression Center. The center becomes the second in what is designed to be a 12-to-14-institution national network that will attack mental illness the way other medical centers have cooperated to attack cancer and heart disease.
For prostate cancer patients who have received radiation treatment and have had the cancer return, surgery is often considered too invasive and repeating radiation is difficult due to the resistance of the cancer. Now, the University of Colorado Cancer Center is the lead institution in a nationwide clinical trial to determine if, following radiation, a freezing method can halt the advance of cancer in patients with recurring prostate cancer.
The University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) now offers an alternative for women who are hesitant to see a male physician for colon-related health issues"”just in time for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Aliya Hasan, MD, assistant professor in the division of gastroenterology at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, has created a women-only colonoscopy clinic allowing her to offer her care to women at UCH every Monday morning.
College football games are linked to aggressive behavior, according to a new study by Daniel I. Rees, PhD, associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver, and Kevin T. Schnepel, a graduate student in the economics program at UC Denver.
Chancellor M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, of the University of Colorado Denver announced today that he has appointed Richard F. Hamman, MD, MPH, DrPH, current professor and chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at UC Denver School of Medicine, as founding dean of the new Colorado School of Public Health.
New research from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine has found that a common antidepressant is showing promising success when combined with cognitive behavior therapy to treat adolescents with depression and substance use disorders. The study is the first randomized controlled trial of combined pharmacotherapy for depression and behavioral intervention for substance use disorders in adolescents.
Researchers at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes and University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center's School of Medicine have discovered a fourth antibody in human blood which will help more accurately predict who is predisposed to type 1 diabetes. The findings will be posted online the week of Oct. 15 and will be published in the Oct. 23 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Researchers at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC) School of Medicine have found that dietary omega-3 fatty acids could decrease the risk of diabetes autoimmunity, a precursor to type 1 diabetes.
According to a new landmark study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, infusions of clotting factor VIII used preventively can significantly reduce the risk of developing joint damage associated with joint bleeding in young children with hemophilia A.
Approximately 15,000 children and adolescents in the United States are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and about 3,700 youth are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes annually, according to estimates from a major national study called SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth.
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center compared the age of first-time drug users across the nation to the age of first-time drug users on and near two different American Indian reservations and found Amercian Indian adolescents to be at higher risk for trying marijuana than their peers.
In the first study of its kind in the U.S., researchers found evidence that prisoners who have been recently released from prison have a high death rate, especially in the first two weeks after release.
In recognition of a series of gifts totaling more than $91 million by The Anschutz Foundation, the University of Colorado system announced that its University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center's Aurora campus will be known as the Anschutz Medical Campus.
According to the results of a recent study by a University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center researcher, transition coaches who encourage patients to take a more active role in their health care can help patients reduce their hospital bills and rates of rehospitalization.
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center identify a genetic risk for type 1 diabetes that is three to four times higher than previously thought possible.
Two independent studies, including one led by a Colorado neonatologist, indicate that early nitric oxide use can help reduce the risk of lung and brain damage in very low birth weight premature babies.
The regulation of cell movements are essential for the proper development of embryos, and defects in the process can result in a variety of birth defects, including spina bifida and cleft palate, according to a report by researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and three other collaborating institutions.
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