Men’s Health
Meet Dr. Mark Christensen | Family and Sports Medicine Physician
Castle Pines Family Practice & Urgent Care
Not Your Mother’s Cholesterol Screening
Everything you need to know about cholesterol, now
Meet the Urologist: Dr. Kara Choate
Urology issues affect just about everyone at some point in life. Urologist Dr. Kara Choate recently joined the team at The Urology Center of Colorado (TUCC). Here, Dr. Choate shares her approach to urology care.
Medical Marvel
Terrifying childhood accident never stopped noted spine surgeon from helping others
Patients Benefit From Recreational Therapy Provided By Highlands Behavioral Health System
There is a lot of evidence of the therapeutic effect of play, and that is especially true for people with behavioral and mental health concerns. Highlands Behavior Health System (HBHS) has established an Experiential Therapy Department that uses play in all forms as a creative, evidence-based...
Denver Springs Behavioral Health Center Offers Help for Heroes
Members of the military, healthcare professionals and first responders, including police officers, firefighters, rescue teams, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, face risky, traumatic situations on a regular basis. As a result, up to 30 percent of them develop post-traumatic stress...
Entrepreneur Designs Skin Cancer Screening App Making Skin Checks as Easy as Posting on Social Media
If you could prevent cancer by simply going for an annual screening at your doctor’s office, you would think that most people would do it. However, skin cancer, which is one of the most common forms of cancer and one of the easiest to diagnose, causes more than two deaths every hour. According to...
Through the Microscope
David Schneider was a sports-loving 8th grader when he saw a TV special about a famous surgeon in Los Angeles named Frank Jobe, a pioneer of sports medicine in the 1950s. Schneider remembers being captivated—and inspired. “My dad was a veterinarian and I grew up in and out of animal hospitals...
Preventing and Treating Erectile Dysfunction | A Denver urologist answers men’s pressing questions
For years, many men thought of erectile dysfunction (ED) — the inability to get and keep an erection firm enough for sex — as an embarrassing condition that needed to be kept a secret. And while that’s changed, largely thanks to drugs that improve erectile function and the widely-played...
Clear Route for Blind Adventurer
Colorado’s Erik Weihenmayer pioneers ‘No Barriers’ from whitewater to ice and rock.