By Diane Carman
Hosting the Thanksgiving feast always has been a challenge, what with the hard-drinking uncles, the post-election political minefields, the unruly children and the matriarch hovering nearby to critique everything from the carving of the turkey to the flakiness of the pie crust. In the past, though, you usually could count on people eating. Not anymore.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Researchers will soon begin studying how medical marijuana affects children with epilepsy, veterans, people with Parkinson’s and others after Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council recommended funding eight research projects that will cost about $7.6 million.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris could easily become despondent over the sick and troubled children she sees in an area of San Francisco that houses a sewage treatment plant and the poor.
Instead, Burke Harris’ eyes light up as she talks about confronting the disturbing topics of childhood trauma and the toxic stress that results from it.
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
New Medicaid patients are sicker and have flocked to hospital ERs at higher rates in states like Colorado that expanded Medicaid than in non-expansion states, according to a new study from the Colorado Hospital Association.
By Diane Carman
It’s a crude comparison, but maybe it’s the easiest way to understand Dr. Martin Blaser’s tantalizing hypothesis.
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