Bill targeting skyrocketing drug prices returns for second hearing in Colorado Legislature
Skyrocketing drug prices have inspired lawmakers in 11 states, including Colorado, to introduce legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to detail how much it costs to research, develop and produce drugs. Colorado’s…
Colorado lawmaker looks to daylight high cost of prescription drugs with transparency bill
A bipartisan bill aimed at compelling pharmaceutical companies to disclose to the state the costs of producing certain prescription drugs will have its first hearing before the Colorado House Committee…
Playing ‘Russian roulette’ with the flu
Influenza killed five children in Colorado last year, and sent 1,530 others to the hospital. And, overall, fewer than 50 percent of the state’s residents were immunized. With a vast…
Montana researcher awarded $1 million grant to develop drug for traumatic brain injuries
The U.S. Army has awarded University of Montana researcher Dave Poulsen a $1 million grant to further develop a drug that limits damage caused by traumatic brain injuries. Researchers in…
New disease discovered: Colorado boy cannot properly process vitamin B
An international team of scientists, including University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado researchers, has discovered a new disease related to an inability to process Vitamin B12.…
Fracking’s health effects remain ‘an experiment in motion’
A former president of the Colorado Medical Society calls the current hydraulic fracturing boom in the state’s oil and gas industry an “experiment in motion” for the public at large…
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