Kate Ruder

Colorado Health and Science Writer

[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

Advocates caution that artificial intelligence and future technologies could extract sensitive information about people’s health and innermost thoughts.

@KateRuderWriter reports for KFF Health News + @CBSNews. ⤵️ https://t.co/4cpCH2Fshg

[CaliforniaHealthline @CalHealthline]

A nursing home in Colorado had 75 minutes to prepare for a power outage that lasted 28 hours. Such public safety power shut-offs are being used more often as a fire prevention tool, but not all health facilities are prepared.

@KateRuderWriter reports ⤵️ https://t.co/XZS5PIiFZ3

[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

NEW: As preemptive power cuts become more widespread, nursing homes are being forced to evaluate their preparedness.

@KateRuderWriter reports ⤵️ https://t.co/GHhK71GdP0

[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

In my article for @KFFHealthNews and @CBSNews, I cover how doctors partner with dental hygienists to bridge gaps in dental care here in Colorado and across the US.
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[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

Doctors who also perform dental checkups are helping children, pregnant women, and others who cannot afford or do not have easy access to dentists.

@KateRuderWriter reports for KFF Health News & @CBSNews

[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

What if we could take unused medications and give them to those who need them most? For my @KFFHealthNews article, a look at how Colorado, California and other states are looking to expand these programs https://t.co/IlULKdIjQY

[Matt Volz @mattvolz]

Some 9 million people don't take their prescriptions because they can't afford them. Meanwhile, an estimated $11 billion in unused medications are thrown out each year. @KateRuderWriter writes about a way to solve both problems. https://t.co/wucH8ZdmcS via @kffhealthnews

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

The antiobesity drugs #semaglutide and #tirzepatide were front and center at the #ObesityWeek23 meeting.

Hot topics included body composition changes, sex differences in outcomes, and questions about the need for lifestyle interventions.

#MedicalNews

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[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

Amidst fervor for #semaglutide and other new weight-loss drugs, rare but serious side effects are emerging in my latest for @JAMA_current News https://t.co/lmRB8418tJ

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

As more patients use #semaglutide, rare but serious adverse effects are emerging for GLP-1 receptor agonists.

JAMA #MedicalNews reports.

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[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

NEW: Are nonprofit hospitals providing enough charity care to justify their tax breaks? Some Pueblo residents say no.

📝: @MarkianHawryluk https://t.co/AgcDqSrcGN

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

A new study builds on evidence that body mass index alone does not fully capture risk of death, @KateRuderWriter reports. https://t.co/xpVs9ONEKd #MedicalNews

[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

“When you’re dying and somebody touches you without expectation of anything in return, you just get
to be,” said massage therapist Ilyse Streim in my latest article for @KFFHealthNews https://t.co/j1HJRJ416S

[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

“When you’re dying and somebody touches you without expectation of anything in return, you just get
to be,” said Ilyse Streim, who specializes in massage for people in hospice. https://t.co/QGz7WmZAFA

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

Women have a higher risk of death & complications than men after coronary artery bypass graft surgery—the most common heart surgery in the US—and the excess risk has not budged over the past decade. @KateRuderWriter reports on new findings in @JAMASurgery. https://t.co/KXLi4LQ7aQ

[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

Women still fare worse after coronary artery bypass surgery than men—year after year—finds a new 10-year study in my article for @JAMA_current. “A call to action,” said Brittany Zwischenberger, MD, Duke University, of these findings. Read more: https://t.co/U9O7AmG5TW

[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

Buying groceries at dollar stores on the rise, particularly in the South and in rural areas in a study from @WenhuiFeng @TuftsMedSchool for @JAMA_current
Special thanks @jerry_shannon and @LeChenarides
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[The Colorado Sun @ColoradoSun]

Rural Colorado tries to fill health worker gaps with apprenticeships https://t.co/W4ahS3xTHl

[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

#NewOnKHN: A Grand Junction program is training and retaining nurse and personal care aides in areas where the aging population is creating a need for them. But challenges remain for these workers.

📝: @KateRuderWriter https://t.co/s89bTPhK8p

[Kate Ruder @KateRuderWriter]

In rural Colorado, apprenticeships for nurse and personal aides fill gaps in care for older adults. Apprentices get scrubs and even a tank of gas if they can't afford the drive to work @KHNews https://t.co/GkqH4zbbfd