Healthcare

Senator Hickenlooper and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joined a zoom call last week to discuss the legal ins and outs of the current administration. The host of the call was Indivisible, a progressive nation-wide grassroots movement that started as a way to pressure local officials to resist President Trump’s agenda.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.

A new facility to treat patients suffering from substance use disorder and withdrawal opened in Glenwood Springs in June. Mind Springs Health, the facility behind the Withdrawal Management Program, presented important updates to the Glenwood Springs City Council last week.

As our country and our state recover from the pandemic, new data shows that our emergency response may have had unintended consequences. Syphilis, a disease nearly eradicated in the nineties, is on the rise. KDNK's Lily Jones spoke with Dr. Ina Park to find out why.

Across the region, Planned Parenthoods are seeing a spike in out of state patients. Many of Colorado’s neighboring states have enacted strict abortion laws in the past two years, leaving many with no choice but to travel for care.

Maternal deaths nationwide more than doubled from 1999 to 2019, according to a new study in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The research also showed that death rates are especially high for Black and American Indian and Alaska Native moms.

Representative Perry Will is running as the Republican incumbent for Colorado House District 57 this election. He spoke to KDNK's Lucas Turner about…

Family Nurse Practitioner Lisa Robbiano and Registered Nurse Maria McHale of Midvalley Family Practice speak with KDNK's Lucas Turner about the growing…

A public letter penned to Garfield County Commissioners asks that county resources be made more inclusive during times of crisis and otherwise. Beatriz…

DENVER -- New research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that switching to a single-payer health system would boost the overall economy, make it…