Tag: U.s. Food And Drug Administration
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Live Well: Regular or diet soda? Either one is no friend to your body
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Pick your poison: regular soda or diet soda. One is not better than the other. They’re both terrible for you, just in different ways. But which one would a dietitian choose, if forced to pick? Kelly Smith, a registered dietitian nutritionist at Springs Nutrition and…
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Venture capital surges to record levels in Colorado Springs, state and U.S.
Investments in startup companies surged to record levels last year in Colorado Springs, the state and the nation, according to a report . Colorado Springs venture capital investments accelerate in third quarter Most of the $208.9 million invested in Colorado Springs startups last year went to Quantum Metric, which landed a record $200 million in…
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Colorado’s troubled partnership with California COVID-19 testing firm
Colorado paid more than $89.2 million to a coronavirus testing provider run by an ambitious 25-year-old entrepreneurial college dropout in California. But state officials abruptly severed ties with the company after federal regulators warned that those officials allowed improper use of the test in nursing homes with some of the highest death rates in the…
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Colorado had America’s highest nursing home coronavirus death rate at end of 2020
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis a year ago pledged an aggressive approach to tamp down surging coronavirus cases in the state’s nursing homes, calling on the Colorado National Guard to help with testing for the virus at…
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Despite COVID-19 restrictions being lifted on funeral homes, officials say they don’t expect to see an increase in services
When William L. Rossi died after an ongoing battle with the novel coronavirus on Nov. 12, the family initially planned to hold a small funeral service to honor him. But as the number of COVID-19 cases continued to surge, and having witnessed first-hand the affects COVID-19 can have on a person; they postponed despite the…