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Position: 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. New and experimental drugs are...
DATE: March 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
College administrators and law enforcement share a concern about incidents of sexual assault involving college students. And that can be a problem. A high-level group of Colorado’s higher-education...
DATE: March 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
The account in December in Rolling Stone magazine of a gang rape at the University of Virginia capped a year in which sexual assault on campus gained traction as a national issue. The White House...
DATE: Feb. 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
Do police officers have an obligation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to accommodate people with mental illnesses when making arrests?The Supreme Court decided earlier this month to take...
DATE: Dec. 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
Jada Garber, tall and confident, was entering her senior year at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011 when she was forced into a group that she never wanted to join. She became the one out...
DATE: Dec. 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
A black Denver resident is about three times more likely than a white resident to be shot by law enforcement. Latino residents are nearly twice as likely to be shot.At a time when the shooting...
DATE: Nov. 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
Define sepsis. Drawing a blank? You’re excused for your ignorance. Fewer than half of all Americans have ever heard of this medical condition, according to a survey conducted last year by the...
DATE: Oct. 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Living
The suicide of actor Robin Williams this month released a flood of brokenhearted tributes from his fans, friends and admirers. It also brought attention to a public health problem that Coloradans...
DATE: Aug. 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
In 2010, a man named Troy Geske died at the Colorado Mental Health Institute of Pueblo after being wrestled by staff members onto a bed, where he was restrained with straps and left by himself,...
DATE: June 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill Friday morning that bans the practice of keeping seriously mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement. The bill, which passed with strong bipartisan...
DATE: June 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Living
Growing demand for intensive mental-health treatment in the state and a decline in the supply of psychiatric beds have put added pressure on emergency rooms. In cases when patients pose a danger to...
DATE: May 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Living
