Lawmakers passed a bill in 2019 that directed the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to seek federal permission to import selected drugs, including weight-loss medication Ozempic.
Tristan Huff, of Fort Collins, and Adam Schwartz, of Denver, filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court, arguing that banning female genital mutilation but allowing circumcision amounts to sex discrimination.
House Bill 1425 will give agencies the ability to regulate autism therapy centers and require their employees to get certified; create a board to license providers of applied behavior analysis.
Federal health regulators have signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years.
Colorado started preparing for work requirements shortly after H.R. 1 passed last July. States had to make assumptions about what the federal government wanted while waiting for guidance, and some of them likely will prove wrong.
Most of Colorado’s West Nile cases appear between June and September, though the season sometimes stretches further into the fall if warm weather lets mosquitoes keep flying and biting.
These furry caregivers aren’t the typical therapy dogs volunteers bring to hospitals.
It’s not a cure, as the drug’s effects eventually waned.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported the child had no known connection to known cases and hadn’t left the state in recent weeks, meaning they likely got the virus from someone who didn’t seek testing.
At one point in 2024, a backlog of mammogram results for women receiving care through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Eastern Colorado Health Care System topped 4,800, delaying an unknown number of surgeries, according to a new audit.