- A new analysis shows that the number of tests and treatments conducted for which the risks and costs exceed the benefits has barely budged despite a decade-long attempt to tamp down on such care.
- Safe storage maps show gun owners where to put their firearms for safekeeping if they experience a mental health crisis. The idea has support among some gun enthusiasts, but legal obstacles threaten wider adoption.
- Much of the opioid settlement money is slated for addiction treatment and efforts to reduce drug trafficking. But some is going to school-based prevention programs to reduce the possibility of addiction before it begins.
- A classic story of a border town prospering from differing laws state to state.
- The CDC says it’s time for new COVID boosters — and not only for those at highest risk of serious disease. Here are seven things you need to know.
- The two hospitals in Pueblo, Parkview Medical Center and Centura St. Mary-Corwin, do not pay most federal or state taxes. Advocates want to see them use community benefit spending on things that actually create community benefits, such as charity care.
- Even a small exposure to arsenic, added up over the course of a person’s life, is enough to cause health problem.
- Experts are hopeful a new state law will lead more facility schools to open. Meanwhile, school districts are creating their own programs, and creative and skilled educators are finding ways to meet students’ needs in traditional classrooms.
- A new state law aims to keep the doors open at schools that accept students with intensive needs. One preteen in rural Colorado shows how the current system leaves some students bouncing between institutions far from home.
- CPR can double or triple a person’s chance of survival if performed immediately after the heart stops beating.
