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Erica Green, who manages the At-Risk Intervention and Mentoring program, or AIM, sits on a couch in the new REACH Clinic in Denver's Five Points neighborhood. Green came to this work after her family's own experience with gun violence: "I feel very blessed to be able to show up for my community this way." (Stephanie Wolf for KFF Health News)

Hospital gun-violence prevention programs — like Denver Health’s — may be caught in Trump funding crossfire

March 23, 2025 at 2:01 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s executive orders calling for the review of the Biden administration’s gun policies and trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans have created uncertainty around the programs’...

The nonprofit Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank is housed on the UCHealth campus in Aurora, Colorado. (Rae Ellen Bichell/KFF Health News)

Former workers at Colorado eye bank say pressure, lax oversight led to errors

November 20, 2024 at 9:39 a.m.

Donated tissues are collected much more frequently than organs, and corneas are the most commonly transplanted body part in the U.S., with nearly 51,000 transplants last year.

Doses of the opioid reversal medication naloxone are displayed for distribution by the Harm Reduction Action Center in Aug. outside the nonprofit's Denver offices. Last year, the center received 7,284 doses from Colorado's Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund, which now lacks a recurring source of revenue. (Claire Cleveland for KFF Health News)

Colorado’s naloxone fund is drying up, even as opioid settlement money rolls in

October 15, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

“Our concern is that we won’t have access to naloxone, and that means that more people will die of a very preventable overdose,” said Lisa Raville, executive director of the...

The new COVID vaccine is out. Why you might not want to rush to get it.

August 27, 2024 at 1:09 p.m.

Although public health officials recommend the newly approved COVID vaccine for everyone 6 months and older, it may make more sense to wait until closer to the holiday season.

Broken utility poles are seen along U.S. 36 between Lefthand Canyon Drive and Nelson Road in Boulder County on Monday, April 8, 2024. High winds buffeted the area over the preceding two days, leading Xcel Energy to preemptively cut power to about 55,000 customers along the northern Front Range to reduce the risk of wildfires. (Matthew Jonas/Daily Camera)

Nursing homes are left in the dark as more utilities cut power to prevent wildfires

July 7, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

It was the first time Xcel Energy preemptively switched off electricity in Colorado as a wildfire prevention tool, according to a company official.

Jacqueline Saa has a progressive genetic condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that leaves her unable to stand and walk on her own. Florida's Medicaid program provides her with a home health aide to help her with various everyday tasks — but she said her coverage abruptly stopped at the end of March with little notice. (Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Saa via KFF Health News)

Medicaid “unwinding” decried as biased against disabled people in Colorado, elsewhere

May 16, 2024 at 8:34 a.m.

She received coverage through Florida’s Medicaid program until it abruptly stopped at the end of March, she said.

FILE – Pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass., June 15, 2018. Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe Biden’s sweeping social agenda bill. Drug companies would have to pay rebates to Medicare if they increase prices above the rate of inflation. Business groups are paying close attention, and the issue has divided them in a fierce lobbying battle. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Colorado blames Biden administration, drugmakers for delaying Canadian imports

December 7, 2023 at 4:02 p.m.

Lawmakers in both parties, at the state and national level, have sought for decades to legalize importing drugs from Canada.

A pharmacist at a Walgreens store holds a box of the overdose antidote Naloxone Hydrochloride
in this 2016 file photo.

More Colorado schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma

October 6, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

Though more districts have signed on since last year, only about a third of Colorado districts had enrolled in the state’s giveaway program at the start of this school year.

Police blame some deaths on “excited delirium.” ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term.

October 5, 2023 at 9:27 a.m.

The American College of Emergency Physicians will vote at an October meeting on whether to formally disavow its 2009 position paper supporting excited delirium as a diagnosis that helped undergird...

Biden Administration to Ban Medical Debt From Americans’ Credit Scores

September 27, 2023 at 4:20 p.m.

The White House said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will develop new regulations that would prevent unpaid medical bills from being counted on credit reports.

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