Each year some 68,000 people in Colorado and across the U.S. die from opiate overdoses, largely due to lack of treatment, and federally qualified health clinics in southwestern Colorado are pioneering an effort to give people access to care at the same place they get their annual medical, dental and vision checkups. Jeanne Marotta, a family nurse practitioner with Axis Health System in Pagosa Springs, said getting people onto alternative medications can save lives. .
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, bringing the spotlight to the country s deadliest form of cancer. There will be an estimated 130,000 lung cancer deaths in 2022, including more than 8,400 in Oregon, according to the American Cancer Society. Michael Skokan, pulmonary critical-care physician at The Oregon Clinic, said many of these deaths are preventable and the first action people can take is to stop smoking. .
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month National Hospice and Palliative Care Month - but a lot of people confuse the two, so experts say they would like to clear up some misconceptions. Palliative care is designed to keep a patient comfortable at all stages of an illness. Hospice care is for people with 6 months or less to live. .
November is Alzheimer s Disease Awareness Month, and researchers at Indiana University were recently awarded $50-million dollars to study the field further. Research into late-onset Alzheimer s disease continues under the MODEL-AD protocol, which was established at I-U in 2016 and develops models of disease progression in mice and then opens those models to other researchers. Gene editing of mice is used to create genetic risk variants that are seen in humans. .
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