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If two Michigan lawmakers have their way, there will be fewer locations in the state where people are allowed to carry firearms. State Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, and state Sen. ...

Firearm-related injuries in Colorado hit a peak in 2022 with over 7000 health care claims and at a cost of 84 million according to a new analysis by the Center for Improving Value

Firearm-related injuries in Colorado hit a peak in 2022, with over 7,000 health care claims and at a cost of $8.4 million, according to a new analysis by the Center for Improving Value in Health Care. Cari Frank, vice president for communications with the center, said nearly nine in ten gun-related injury claims were for adults. But she said there were alarming spikes in the rate of these injuries among children. ...

Plus: Telehealth is not saving Colorado’s rural areas. All in this week's Temperature newsletter by The Colorado Sun.

Mountain Family Health Centers announced it will welcome Dustin Moyer as its new Chief Executive Officer in early February 2024, according to a Tuesday news release.  Moyer’s new role comes nearly four months after the...

Mountain Family Health Centers announced Wednesday, Jan. 3, that it has hired Dustin Moyer as its new chief executive officer. Moyer will officially assume his new role in early February. Moyer’s CEO announcement comes nearly...

In a new poll, 25% of voters say they have "personally experienced or witnessed discrimination in health care due to race, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion or sexual orientation." The poll, sponsored by Compassion & Choices, an end-of-life care advocacy group, included 1,600 voters from across the United States. "It was striking that one-quarter of voters report that they personally experienced or witnessed discrimination in health care, with an even highe...

Researchers at the University of Montana have been awarded more than more than $12 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue their work on a tuberculosis vaccine. It is the latest step toward developing the inoculation, which is especially important in the worlds underdeveloped countries. The grant to the University of Montanas Center for Translational Medicine will be used to advance a promising vaccine candidate from the pretrial stage to clinical trials; the last stage befor...

Overall, more Coloradans are getting the care they need to stay healthy compared to previous years, according to a new analysis of data in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database. Cari Frank - vice president for communications with the Center for Improving Value in Health Care - said the percentage of people accessing preventative services, including breast and cervical cancer screenings, has been on the rise between 2013 to 2021. "Both of those have gone up over time," said ...

The U.S. spends huge amounts of money on health care that does little or nothing to help patients, and may even harm them. In Colorado, a new analysis shows that