Author: Michael Booth
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Colorado doctor accused of botching surgeries
DENVER — The Colorado medical board has accused a surgeon of unprofessional conduct after a series of botched procedures with Porter Adventist Hospital’s robotic surgery arm left some patients with severe injuries. The state alleges that from 2008 to 2010, Dr. Warren Kortz cut and tore blood vessels, left sponges and instruments inside patients and…
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Smoked salmon recall hits Colorado, other states
State health officials put out the word Monday on a voluntary recall of smoked salmon at Whole Foods markets, for potential listeria contamination. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said Whole Foods was recalling Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon, the 4-oz. size, for potential listeria. The packages are cold-smoked and sliced salmon.…
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Obamacare debate bungled by Obama himself
Health care reform advocates must have been writhing in agony in front of their televisions last night as one of the best opportunities to defend Obamacare was bungled by Obama himself. The Tweets and comments were brutal. The president has had years to hone a succinct and convincing argument about what history may record as…
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Drug can improve memory in Down syndrome patients, researchers say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A long-anticipated CU study claims an Alzheimer’s drug can boost memory function in Down syndrome patients, researchers announced Tuesday. CU School of Medicine researchers said the drug memantine improved “visual episodic memory,” such as retaining…
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Drug can improve memory in Down syndrome patients, researchers say
A long-anticipated CU study claims an Alzheimer’s drug can boost memory function in Down syndrome patients, researchers announced Tuesday. CU School of Medicine researchers said the drug memantine improved “visual episodic memory,” such as retaining long lists of vocabulary words, in Down syndrome patients. The 16-week course compared the results to a control group taking…
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State didn’t cite nursing home after man’s bedsore death
Henry Frazier left a Rocky Ford nursing home with a fist-size necrotic abscess from a bedsore — and died in hospice. A jury awarded the family $3.2 million for negligence by Pioneer Healthcare, a nursing home in a building where Frazier had once worked as a janitor. An expert found Frazier had suffered 16 facility-acquired…
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Helmets for tornadoes? North Dakota says yes, CDC not so sure
Can a helmet protect the ol’ brain basket amid the force of a tornado? A North Dakota researcher thinks it’s a great idea, and hands out the advice to kids when he speaks about weather and storm dangers. The CDC got so many phone calls from the public (and no doubt from reporters) that it…
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FDA seeks millions for food safety in wake of listeria outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants a $220 million boost to its food safety budget next year, citing Colorado’s listeria outbreak in cantaloupe as primary proof the system needs work. The agency’s request, highlighted in the rollout of President Obama’s proposed federal budget, said the outbreak is the “latest illustration of the continuing need…
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High risk, high need force insurance pool to seek $15M
Colorado’s troubled high-risk health-insurance pool has asked the federal government for nearly $15 million more than planned after running up early claims that are twice the national average. High-risk, uninsurable patients were the heart of emotional pleas for national health-care reform in 2010, and Colorado got $90 million of a $5 billion federal pool to…
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Doctor sued in Hep C case defends practices that defy guidelines
Prominent Denver doctors argue they don’t have a duty to lock up potent surgery sedatives, despite the 2009 operating-room theft and fraud by Kristen Parker that infected 18 patients with hepatitis C, according to court documents.The chairman of a major anesthesiology department at St. Anthony Hospital will testify that doctors don’t have a duty to…