Family Medicine/Primary Care/Internal Medicine

Colorado Health & Wellness magazine, Ask The Dr

Ask The Dr.

by Dr. Jenifer Marks

What GERD treatment options are available? Are there dietary and lifestyle changes to make? Or, do I have to rely on medications or surgery?

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Too much caffeine

Are you overcaffeinating?

by Andrea Juarez

Your caffeine habit — whether it’s coffee, tea, soda or energy drinks— may taste good and may even give you that much-needed boost for mental focus and performance. But too much caffeine is not good for your health. And not all caffeine is equal.

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Coasting Over the Hill Three habits to become a happy, healthy senior

Coasting Over the Hill

by Electa Draper

Three habits to become a happy, healthy senior

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Merlinda Lucas, American Furniture Warehouse

Patient becomes first at Sky Ridge to undergo PFO-closure procedure

by Debra Melani | Photos by John Menchaca

After their patient was stabilized and recovering from a stroke, doctors at Sky Ridge Medical Center delved deeper, seeking to answer the question: Why?

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Jake Jabs American Furniture Warehouse

Quick response, new treatment offers Sky Ridge stroke patient brighter future

by Debra Melani | Photos by John Menchaca

Merlinda Lucas, a 47-year-old Brighton resident, was treated at Sky Ridge Medical Center this summer for a stroke. Because her story is unusual, and because she was the first patient to undergo a special treatment at Sky Ridge that should dramatically reduce her chances of having a repeat stroke,...

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Adult immunization recommendations

by Maribeth Neelis

A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that many adults fail to get important vaccinations, often times because they don’t even know they exist. Adult immunization recommendations can be complicated, because factors like job, travel and chronic conditions may increase...

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Brad Feld’s Village

by Sarah Protzman Howlett

Colorado Entrepreneur’s Take on Coping with Depression

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Endometriosis

Could It Be Endometriosis?

by Jennifer L.W. Fink

Reporting Pain is First Step Toward Minimizing Suffering and Improving Fertility

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Dr. Don Frei, a neurointerventional radiologist

Sky Ridge Medical Center Is First Southeast Denver Hospital to Offer New Stroke Treatment

by Jeannette Moninger

When a clot restricts blood flow to the brain, critical neurons that control movement, speech and thinking start to die. During a stroke, every second counts.

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Sky Ridge’s New Hybrid Operating Room Enables State-of-the-Art Patient Care

by Jeannette Moninger

In Fall of 2017, Sky Ridge Medical Center became the first hospital in southeast Denver to open a hybrid operating room (OR) at a cost of $4 million. Here, Dr. Colleen Hupp, a vascular surgeon with Colorado Cardiovascular Surgical Associates (CCVSA) at Sky Ridge, shares how this surgical...

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