Personal trainer and CrossFit coach at Unleashed Fitness and CrossFit Park Hill, Emily Schromm, recently won Women’s Health Magazine’s “The Next Fitness Star” competition. She discusses her paleo diet and fitness routine.
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10th Case of Muscle Weakness Related to Enterovirus-D68
Paresis or muscle weakness has started showing up among kids with the circulating respiratory virus, Enterovirus-D68—a cousin to the common cold that causes wheezing.
The Dilemma of Marijuana & Epilepsy
An oil extracted from a specific marijuana plant, often referred to as Charlotte’s Web, has shown miraculous results controlling seizures among kids with epilepsy. That’s not true for every case, though. After a year of using the oils, a Stapleton family has seen some improvements but waits for their miracle.
Respiratory Virus Spreads Among Kids/Youth
Hospitals are noticing an increase in the number of young patients with a rare cold that causes wheezing.
Attention Turning to Mental Illness
While mental illnesses can be debilitating, they are very treatable. That doesn’t necessarily mean treatment is available, though.
Med Students Celebrate Their “First Patients”
At the beginning of their human anatomy lab working on cadavers, many students at the University of Colorado School of Medicine are distraught. By the end, many consider them their “first patients.”
New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Breakthrough CU Research on Infertility
Drug research shows women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) now have a 45 percent better chance of getting pregnant.
New Life, New Health for 11-Year-Old with Cystic Fibrosis
One year ago, 11-year-old Jen Dunlea had lungs so riddled with infections doctors discussed a lung transplant. She and her mom, Laurel, lived in Southern California and spent 90 percent of their time in hospitals. “She was sick, and we had no life,” Laurel says. One year later, the best-friend, mother-daughter duo lives in Stapleton, […]
Farm to Front Door: Organic Food Delivery
Med Students Celebrate Their First “Patients”
Whitney Sumner distinctly remembers the initial shock of looking at the dead body for the first time. Until now she hadn’t really considered what it meant to spend four hours a day, five days a week with a dead body. The donor had died at 94 of general failure, the only information Sumner and the […]