Author: Pius Kamau
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Our leaders are a reflection of us | Pius Kamau
The ceaseless incoherent noise of American politics is filtered and diminished by Colorado’s altitude; it is also diluted by the winds blowing down from the Rockies. That has been my opinion, as I have watched what America has lived through this last decade from my mile high perch. Already in 2026’s first three weeks the…
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COLUMN: Now is not the time to stop giving | Pius Kamau
I recall the 1983 to 1985 Ethiopian famine that affected 8 million people and killed between half a million to a million people. It was such a dramatic and tragic loss of life, it propelled Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to organize a very successful benefits concert, Live Aid. The two-venue benefit concert and music based…
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Defeated council members miscast Aurora | Pius Kamau
Like my neighbors, I’m proud of the city where I have lived for some three decades. It is enough time to see some two lane streets morph into five lane traffic arteries. I worked in the then-two small community hospitals before one swallowed up the other and got big; when slumbering Fitzsimons Army Medical Center awakened…
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I give thanks that we live in a democracy | Pius Kamau
“Forever, the optimist,” a friend commented on reading my latest column — “It’s an amazing time to be alive.” This optimist’s column emphasized how fortunate we are not to have pain as our ever present Sword of Damocles. I am thankful medicine and science can manage most of our pain, compared to past centuries, when…
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COLUMN: It’s a good time to be alive
Much of our language of complaints in the 21st century emanates from our being ill informed. Nonetheless I think there has never been a better time to be alive than today. Despite our inequities, noise and rancor, our life is still the best it’s ever been. Statistics prove it. I personally see man’s existence, history and…
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COLUMN: The science of drinking is evolving | Pius Kamau
Science, it seems, tarnishes national practices, pastimes, diets, and often seems unmindful of histories. The latest scientific target is alcohol: its ingestion causes cancer. For a large swath of humanity alcohol, or ethanol plays central roles in religious devotion and tribal ceremonial libations — parts of tradition and societal well-being. As a scientist I know where…
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COLUMN: Cycles of genocide disrupted | Pius Kamau
Genocides resemble most diseases: they have incubation periods and sometimes have what’s referred to in medicine as prodromes. Both are important periods when united nations can reverse genocidal realization and completion. I have talked a great deal about global genocide in “Never Again,” the podcast I host. I should have, but did not know of…
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Of Trump, Tylenol, and autism | Pius Kamau
Before penning my observations about the president and Tylenol, and even though I know more about Tylenol than most Americans, I reached out to a number of my local medical friends and colleagues – internists and pharmacists — to hear their opinions about the deleterious relationship between Tylenol ingestion during pregnancy and autism. Their communal…
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If TikTok is our doc, we’re in deep trouble | Pius Kamau
There’s something quite disconcerting about loud, uncivilized disagreements of grown-ups, that’s magnified manifold when they also write and pass our laws. I’m referring to the shouted exchanges between HHS secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and several GOP and Democratic senators. And of course our own U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett whose dagger thrusts of logic time…
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A season of drought for education | Pius Kamau
It is a season of drought for our children’s education, from which Trump’s cleavers lop off limbs and branches. And yet, in the arid season, visible are glimmers of good news for Colorado’s elementary and middle school students: CMAS test results show improvement to their pre-pandemic performance in mathematics and literacy. Mathematics results are a…