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High school students from Durango are pushing for a change they say is necessary to combat fentanyl poisoning: ensuring students can’t get in trouble for carrying the overdose reversal drug naloxone wherever they go, including at school.
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The Tepeyac Community Health Center played a lead role in turning a former industrial lot in north Denver into a multi-use development that includes 150 affordable housing units, a new 24,500 square foot clinic, pharmacy, and also plans to add a grocery store offering fresh produce.
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Climate change, cost and competition for water drive settlement over tribal rights to Colorado RiverA Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement.
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The number of monthly abortions in the U.S. is similar to what it was before the nation's top court overturned the right to abortion. But how they are provided is different, a new study conducted for the advocacy group Society of Family Planning finds.
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Teen mental health rates are improving in Summit County, according to new data from the Healthy Kids Colorado survey.
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Over the past five years, more than 15,000 lawsuits have been filed against UCHealth patients over medical debts. But if you are one of the people being sued, you might not see the hospital system’s name on the papers. John Ingold with The Colorado Sun told KUNC that in the past, UCHealth filed bill collection lawsuits under its own name—but now the vast majority are in the name of a third-party debt collector.
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In the last five years, patients have been sued 15,710 times for money owed to UCHealth. Most of those lawsuits were filed in the name of debt collectors working for the hospital system.
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Members of a mental health response team sent to help a man who was having a "psychotic breakdown" instead killed him by tackling him and leaving him handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by his family. The lawsuit over the 2022 death of Kevin Dizmang in Colorado Springs was filed against the team's paramedic and a police officer.
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Rapid growth at several airports, including Rocky Mountain Metropolitan in northern Colorado, has sparked lawsuits, thousands of noise complaints and health concerns about airborne lead pollution in neighboring communities.
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One idea under review aims to reduce noise by altering the recommended daytime flight pattern, with more planes turning toward open space in Boulder County during takeoff instead of neighborhoods in Superior.