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Medical equipment prices to drop starting July 1

1 Ann Imse / June 2, 2013 7:00 AM

Beginning July 1, Colorado patients will start saving hundreds and even thousands of dollars on medical equipment because, after a 10-year delay, Medicare is switching to competitive bidding in the Denver and Colorado Springs metro areas.

Gun suicides far more common than homicides

1 Rabah Kamal / May 12, 2013 8:00 AM

Coloradans are four times more likely to die of suicide by gun than homicide by gun.
According to the state health department, Colorado recorded 571 firearms-related deaths in 2011. Of those, 442 were from suicide.

Heavy drinking dragging Colorado down

0 Ann Imse / April 21, 2013 7:00 AM

High alcohol consumption is dragging down health in many Colorado counties, from Denver to the mountains, according to the annual County Health Rankings produced by the nation’s largest public health foundation. In Colorado, Pitkin and Douglas counties ranked No. 1

Highway death toll rises as Colorado State Patrol enforcement drops

0 Rabah Kamal / April 14, 2013 7:00 AM

The Colorado State Patrol reduced enforcement of highway safety in 2011 and 2012. During those years, traffic-related deaths on state highways spiked, reversing a dramatic 9-year decline in highway deaths. In January, the 42-year old chief of the state patrol was paid $90,000 to retire

Decades of cuts puts Colorado in mental health crisis

0 Cara DeGette / March 17, 2013 7:00 AM

Nearly every day in Colorado, someone having a mental health crisis tries to seek help at a hospital emergency room. There’s only one problem: ER doctors are able to diagnose and treat a broken foot, but they generally don’t have the training to fix a broken mind