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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
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12 July 2021
Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A joint project between Wyoming and Colorado screens newborns for spinal muscular atrophy, allowing them to receive gene therapies to prevent the deadly disease’s progression. Once researchers identified a protein mis...
30 March 2020
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Colorado, most mental health services have been moved online as a response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Called telemental health, the virtual sessions give those that regularly see a therapist, or need to bec...
9 July 2019
Buena Vista, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Researchers from the University of Colorado and Colorado Parks and Wildlife are hoping the experimental antifungal bacterial baths they gave toads in the Rocky Mountains are working. A fungus called Batrachochytrium d...
20 March 2019
Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Colorado, a state law requiring the use of a screening tool is being used to combat sex trafficking at the individual level. The screening tool identifies and offers support and protection to victims of sex traffic...
25 February 2019
Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Throughout the US, the majority of states have policy in place that dictates against treating immigrants there illegally for kidney failure until it reaches emergent conditions, costing states millions of dollars each...
24 January 2019
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Inclusion, access, and relatability – these are the foundations of Colorado’s “Below the Surface” program aimed at preventing teen suicide. The program is a text line that teens and adults can use to contact an on-cal...
19 November 2018
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Denver lawmakers and activists are working to curb drug addiction and prevent overdose deaths with legislation and services. Despite federal illegality, local legislators want to legalize safe injection sites in the s...
19 September 2018
Colorado, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
With a new prescribing protocol in place, drug store pharmacists can prescribe anti-smoking medications. People often visit a pharmacy more than their doctor, and the new protocol allows greater access to necessary me...
17 July 2015
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Video
Over 15 Minutes
Children across the U.S. experience gender confusion, causing emotional stress in themselves and their family. Gender identity counselors and gender youth clinics are being created in multiple states to help families ...
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