public health

Colorado is ramping up its efforts to distribute the monkeypox vaccine after President Biden declared it a health emergency. And fourteen tribes in the Colorado River basin say they’re being kept “largely in the dark” about plans to conserve an unprecedented amount of water amid historic drought.

Elizabeth Reiter’s family was not by her side on Mother’s Day in 2020, when she was fighting pneumonia and a blood infection in a Denver hospital. The coronavirus pandemic was just starting to rage, and hospitals were keeping visitors out to limit the spread of the virus.

Temperatures in Colorado are warming faster than the national average, according to researchers. Experts say that the current dry spell is a symptom of…

Public health officials say a dozen Colorado counties have now vaccinated more than seventy percent of their eligible populations against the…

Having stable income, safe housing, and social support have greater combined impacts on your health than any individual behavior, according to the World…

A voluntary recall has been issued for retail marijuana products from cannabis grower Bonsai Cultivation. The Denver Department of Public Health and…

As the CDC continues to investigate more than 800 cases of vaping-related lung disease, two states have found that many patients were using THC products sold under the label "Dank Vapes."

The insects were created, using CRISPR, to carry a powerful "gene drive." The mosquitoes could provide a potent weapon against malaria, but they raise fears about unpredictable environmental effects.

Montezuma County Commissioner Larry Don Suckla failed Monday in what he said was an effort to protect dwindling private property rights. He made a motion…

A 9-year-old boy and a 27-year-old woman from San Juan County, New Mexico, are on life support while battling hantavirus, a disease spread by deer mice…