Colorado’s proposed ban on using public food assistance to pay for soft drinks, which already faced a tight approval timeline, is likely dead after a judge on Monday ruled the federal government lacked the power to authorize such changes.
Denver Health recorded its strongest financial results in years in 2025, though its leader says one good year isn’t enough to cushion the region’s safety-net hospital from coming state and federal cuts.
Despite their cuddly demeanor, Coloradans should be wary of touching wild bats, even if injured, Jefferson County health officials said.
The new rules will apply to people covered through what’s known as Medicaid expansion.
Children’s Hospital Colorado says it reinstated gender-affirming care in response to a court order, but transgender patients can’t actually receive it because the health center’s doctors refuse to write prescriptions, fearing retaliation.
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.