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Category Archives: health
Plan Aims To Inject Opportunity Into South Pueblo’s Colorado Smelter Superfund Site
A plan is underway to bring new life to south Pueblo residential and commercial areas affected by the Colorado Smelter Superfund project. The revitalization, a collaboration with federal, state and local agencies, is based on community input and has been in the works for about five years. … Continue reading
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
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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
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Tagged colorado history, health
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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
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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
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Tagged ethics, health, medical
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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
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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
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