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829,000: Number of Coloradans without health insurance
829,000: Number of Coloradans without health insurance
Our annual, must-have guide to the best physicians—nearly 300 of them in more than 80 medical specialties—in the Mile High City.
Finding a great dentist can be as challenging as trying to floss each night. Thankfully, we’ve done the hard part for you. 5280 tracked down Colorado’s best dentists—in eight specialties (including orthodontics!)—to keep your pearly whites, well, pearly.
Drs. Jennifer McLean and Amy Brown—who live in Denver and Glenwood Springs, respectively—practice in medically underserved areas of our state. It’s not what most doctors would call a choice position. They do it because they love it. But their jobs come with a fringe benefit that might make other would-be docs reconsider the waning career of general practitioner.
Emotional well-being is a state of health that many of us take for granted. But even the most stable psyche can wobble from time to time. Unfortunately, accessing mental health care can be a frustrating and confusing labyrinth. Here, we give you a basic map for navigating the maze.
Medical marijuana is all the rage in Colorado—but does weed actually have medicinal benefits?
Using perioperative therapy for postoperative pain.
A Denver woman faces her eating disorder—and lives to blog about it.
Denver’s Eating Recovery Center’s new Behavioral Hospital for Children and Adolscents is one of the few of its kind in the country.
Colorado-based Flight for Life, one of the world’s most prestigious criticial-care transports, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
If you like to work out and you like to party, but you don’t want your party to negate your workout, read on: Denver recently became the first U.S. city to launch an almost laughably counterintuitive concept called Fitness Clubbing. Thanks to Bulgarian-born DJ Darina Miteva, all you night-owl club-goers can get your freak on—alcohol-free—while you burn your calories off. Will it catch on? You be the judge.
A new facility brings elite-level recovery techniques to everyday athletes.
How Denver’s brain-training center can change your mind—forever.
Local clinics like Westminster’s Clinica Colorado have an open-door policy—for those without insurance.
After years of tolerating a hearing disability, a ground-breaking surgery grants one Denverite the tuned-in life she never knew she always wanted.
A local painter fights cancer through her work.
A local organization makes a global impact with its water sanitation solutions.
Our annual, must-have guide to the best physicians—nearly 300 of them in more than 80 medical specialties—in the Mile High City.
Work your way to a better body at a pro boxer’s new gym.
And it’s working. Dr. Patricia Gabow’s remarkable turnaround of Denver Health has made it a national model for public hospitals. And it just may be a blueprint for health care in the United States.
