Color Me Diabetic
Researchers at MIT and Harvard have developed tattoos that can indicate what’s going on inside the body with biosensors in the tattoo ink.
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Trendy ‘Miracle Cures’
To help you make informed decisions, we’ve taken a look at five common substances that some say work miracles.
Collective Trauma Response: Addressing difficult feelings in a topsy-turvy world
Once in a while, an event happens that shakes the emotional core of a community, and many of us can be part of a collective trauma and healing.
A Dose of the Outdoors- Forest exposure is good for us
Experiments over the last decade show that when we’re in nature, our blood pressure measurably drops.
How Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) training could allow you to live your best life
While the wearer exercises wearing a full-body EMS suit, a trainer controls an electrical current that encourages more muscle fibers to contract.
How patients cope with cognitive effects of cancer treatment
Chemo brain can manifest as confusion, feeling spacey, or having a short attention span and also affect information-processing speed and fine-motor skills.
Bad Medicine- Opioid Addiction in Boulder County
The percentage of Coloradans seeking treatment for substance abuse nearly doubled for prescription opioid abuse between 2007 and 2014.
Put Your Best Face Forward: Winter Skin Care
Have you ever thought about what the climate in our state is doing to your skin? Here are some tips for winter skin care.
Gaining the Performance Edge: What’s safe for amateur athletes?
Finding the performance edge may mean athletes need to achieve athletic maturity: learning how to train, seek advice from science...
Sensory-deprivation chambers offer mental and physical benefits
Centers housing sensory-deprivation chambers have flowered along the Front Range
Excess Weight: Should You Worry If You’re Just a Bit Heavy?
The question of when to worry is complicated by the methods we use to quantify excess weight.
How to Know If You Need a Podiatrist
Sometimes it’s not obvious whether you need a podiatrist, another specialist or a primary-care physician.
Working Like A Dog: having pets in the workplace is a good thing
Pets in the workplace are calming By Ruthanne Johnson The workday usually starts like this for Don Martinson: Up early. Shower. Dress. Quick breakfast and to-go coffee for the commute. Then his three dogs line up at the back door to see whose turn it is to go to work with him. Louie and Lola
Dealing with Divorce
Local groups offer survival strategies By Julie Marshall Divorce is like being in a horrific car crash, every day, for years. That’s how one 50-year-old divorcee puts it. It’s an earthquake with continual aftershocks, says another, or the death of your lifelong partner in which friends and family judge how you handle it and expect
Acute vs. Chronic Inflammation
Hot and Bothered By Shannon Burgert Insidious. That’s the word Jason Glowney, M.D., uses to describe chronic inflammation, and it’s well-deserved. Inflammation is linked to myriad illnesses, such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and cancer. But Glowney, medical director and assistant professor for the University of Colorado’s Sports Medicine and Performance Center in Boulder, says that
Dance Yourself Fit
Dancing is fitness in disguise By Amber Erickson Gabbey According to Zumba instructor Cori Ehrhart, dancing is fitness in disguise. “Most people are having so much fun, they don’t even realize it was a workout until the end,” she says. Dancing is an effective way to burn a ton of calories, build strength, lose weight,
Eight tips to help you survive hosting the family
By Mary Lynn Bruny It’s getting to be that time of year when I decorate the house, have family visitors, host holiday dinners and hide a bottle of vodka under my bathroom sink. Don’t get me wrong. I love my big family. I love holidays. But both in combo can drive me bonkers and into
A New Guide Book: Hiking Colorado’s Front Range
I saw my first Colorado calendar while growing up in California. Replete with fantastic images of mountains, rivers, animals, columbines, aspens and the bluest of skies, the calendar made me wonder, “Does such a gorgeous place really exist?” I discovered it does after moving here 36 years ago. Since then, I’ve hiked a lot of terrain
Stem Cell Therapies: Tiny Building Blocks of Life
Stem cells have remarkable qualities Imagine being able to print out a new knee—not the plastic-and-metal kind, but one made of real bone, ligament and cartilage cells. Science fiction? Yes, for now. “But it’s probably not as far off as it sounds,” says Christopher Centeno, M.D., a Broomfield-based specialist in orthopedic regenerative medicine. “It’s on
Using acupuncture for insomnia
When Pins and Needles Help You Sleep By Jane Palmer When Michelle Dodd’s newborn developed severe acid reflux, the typical six weeks of interrupted sleep extended to nearly a year as her baby needed to snack almost continuously. After nine torturous months the digestive problem resolved—but for Dodd, the challenges had just begun. “By then
Alzheimer’s: ‘We’re All at Risk’
Alzheimer’s already affects some 65,000 patients and 234,000 caregivers in Colorado, with the numbers rising sharply. By Shannon Burgert Baby boomers are starting to become seniors, and thanks to modern medicine, people are living longer. But with increasing age comes an increased risk for Alzheimer’s, a disease which the medical field has yet to successfully
