-
Recent Posts
- From The Tricolour To The Lone Star, Why Are There So Many Flags On Pueblo’s Seal?
- Troubled Horses And Broken Humans Help Each Other At Alternative Prison Ranch
- The Dry: a community built by black homesteaders in southeastern Colorado
- Human hubris is dangerous in avalanche country
- Thinking about your Colorado garden and lawn this winter? You should be!
- Pueblo Mountain Park Marks 100 Years
- Artists Ready To Paint On Fresh Concrete Canvas In Pueblo And Regain The World Record for Largest Outdoor Mural
- Alabama’s First Sandhill Crane Hunt In More Than A Century
- Autumn Colorado Gardening Questions, Answered
- Biking Legend Jonathan Vaughters On Doping And Repairing Cycling’s Damaged Reputation
- Colorado Author Jennie Dear Asks, “What Does It Feel Like To Die?”
- Clouds Before The Storm
- Peter Roper Retires After Nearly 30 Years At The Pueblo Chieftain
- Are you battling beetles and bindweed? A CSU Master Gardener answers summer gardening questions
- Crypto-Jews will gather in Denver next week
- Combat Veterans Help Each Other Heal Moral Injury With A Journey To Israel
- The hidden history of Crypto-Jews in Colorado and the West
- Want A Fun Road Trip Idea? Tour Colorado On A Penny Squishin’ Mission
- The Arab Spring, ancient pharaohs and 21st century garbage collectors are all part of #Colorado author Peter Hessler’s new book “The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution.”
- Mission: Wolf In Southern Colorado Helps Wolves And People Too
- Health Care In The Borderlands of Southern Colorado
- Medical Aid In Dying: A Colorado Doctor’s Perspective
- Telluride poet Kierstin Bridger gives voice to prostitutes of the Old West in her collection, Demimonde.
- Colorado Spring Gardening Questions Answered
- Colorado Author Pam Houston’s Latest Book Is Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country.
Category Archives: health
Colorado Author Jennie Dear Asks, “What Does It Feel Like To Die?”
Death is an inevitable part of life. Yet many of us fear it and don’t know much about it. Durango author and hospice volunteer Jennie Dear wondered what it feels like to die. Her new book “what does it feel … Continue reading
Health Care In The Borderlands of Southern Colorado
Visit southern Colorado and you’ll find a blend of cultures. That’s partly because the region belonged to Mexico up until 1848. When the border moved south people from many backgrounds intermingled, melding their traditions. A new exhibit at the Trinidad … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, health, History
Tagged health, southern Colorado, trinidad
Leave a comment
A Growing Number Of Coloradans Asked For Medical Aid In Dying Prescriptions Last Year
Emergency room doctor Harry Calvino’s wife Antje was among the 125 Coloradans who got prescriptions for drugs to help them die last year. That’s up some 74 percent from from the previous year, according to a recent state report. Most … Continue reading
Colorado Gears Up For Another Flu Season In The Shadow Of 1918 Influenza Pandemic
After a nasty flu season in 2017 and another one brewing this year, doctors are again calling for anyone 6 months or older to get vaccinated. The good news is, Colorado’s tangle with the flu in 2018 is unlikely be worse than it … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, health, History
Tagged colorado history, health
Leave a comment
Native American Colorado Chef Turns To Indigenous Food Activism
Chef Karlos Baca, of Ignacio, grew up foraging for traditional, Native American ingredients in the San Juan Mountains. Later, he went on to learn classical European cooking and became the head chef at some posh restaurants. Now he tells Colorado … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, health, Rural Issues
Tagged cooking, native american
Leave a comment
What Would You Risk To Live Longer? Do Smokers Deserve Expensive Treatments? New Podcast Explores Tough Questions In Medicine
Hard Call Theater host Matthew Wynia talks with Jeff Zinn following a live performance at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz medical campus in 2016. (Courtesy of David Weil, University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities) Who decides … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, health
Tagged ethics, health, medical
Leave a comment
EPA Seeks Comment on Colorado Smelter Superfund Cleanup Plan in Pueblo
The Environmental Protection Agency is requesting public comment on a proposed interim plan to begin clean up in the Colorado Smelter Superfund site in south Pueblo. The clean up addresses toxic lead and arsenic left behind when the smelter closed … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, health, KRCC, Reported Story
Tagged Colorado Smelter, pueblo, Superfund
Leave a comment
Normal Toxin Levels at Two Parks in Colorado Smelter Superfund Area in Pueblo
Toxin levels at two south Pueblo parks within the Colorado Smelter Superfund area are normal, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Lead and arsenic were left behind when a south Pueblo smelter ceased operations in 1908. EPA toxicologist Charles Partridge … Continue reading
FDA Tightens Rules On Antibiotics In Livestock Feed
Feedlots, ranchers and even 4-H kids sometimes give their animals feed and water laced with antibiotics. This practice is known to help promote growth, as well as prevent disease. But there’s growing concern about the increase in antibiotic-resistant germs. So … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Animals, Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, health, Rural Issues
Tagged Paul Morley DVM, ryan warner
Leave a comment
For Some, Suicide May Be The Price Of Living In A Ski Town Paradise
Western ski towns have a higher suicide rate than other areas. It’s hard to pinpoint why this is happening but some experts believe the ski town culture, high altitude and economic inequality may be factors. Journalist Kelley McMillan recently looked … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, health
Tagged ski town suicide, suicide
Leave a comment
