Health conundrum: Prevent skin cancer while dosing up on D
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Summer is officially over, but with temperatures approaching 90 degrees and bright sunny September days, you still might be able to dose up on some vitamin D.
Fear of tap water tied to tooth decay epidemic among Hispanics
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Rosa Snyder has searing memories of the pain and shame of tooth decay.
By age 7, her teeth started falling out. At around 11, she remembers a late-night trip to the Emergency Room at Denver Health.
Colorado makes it far tougher to opt out of vaccines
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Opting out of vaccines for potentially deadly diseases like the measles will become much harder in Colorado after the Board of Health on Wednesday voted for a set of tougher rules for parents seeking exemptions.
New targeted treatments extend the lives of patients with deadly cancers
By Kristin Jones
Rocky Mountain PBS I-News
Access to quality treatment can mean the difference between life and death for the more than 24,000 people in Colorado expected to be diagnosed with cancer this year.
Docs soon may advise parents to ‘relax’ and give babies allergenic foods early
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
A UK researcher who trained at National Jewish Health in Denver has shaken up the allergy world with a study released Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine that shows that early exposure to peanuts prevents rather than causes allergies.