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Arthur Allen | KFF Health News (TNS) Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst, one of the pricey medications that treat his multiple myeloma, a blood cancer he was diagnosed with in 2010. The drugs have kept his cancer at bay. But their rapidly increasing costs so infuriated Mitchell that he was inspired to create an advocacy movement. Patients for Affordable Drugs, which he founded in 2016, was instrumental in getting drug price reforms into the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Those changes are kicking in now, and Mitchell, 73, is an early beneficiary. In…

Hunter Boyce | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) Researchers in Vietnam have discovered a connection between COVID-19 cases and trouble sleeping in patients. Of the 1,056 unhospitalized COVID-19 patients featured in the study, 76.1% reported experiencing insomnia. Of those who reported trouble sleeping, 22.8% were found to have severe insomnia. “One third of participants reported worse sleep quality, shorter sleep duration, and harder to fall asleep, half reported more awaken nights after COVID-19 infection,” the researchers reported. “Participants with depressive … or anxiety … had significantly higher odds of developing insomnia.” According to Marc Sala, co-director of the Comprehensive COVID Center at…

A Grand Junction climber was rescued Saturday after falling 120 feet in Whitewater. The 48-year-old man was climbing in the area of Mother’s Buttress south of Grand Junction when he fell at least 120 feet from the Tooth and Claw climb, according to the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office, sheriff’s office volunteers, Gateway Fire Department, CareFlight and the Bureau of Land Management responded to the accident. A drone located the man and a companion on a ledge 200 feet from the base, where they waited until rescuers reached them, according to the sheriff’s office. A helicopter took the…

The brackets for the Colorado high school state basketball championships: BOYS Class 6A First round Wednesday, Feb. 21 Higher seed hosts Game 1: No. 1 Fruita Monument (23-0) vs. No. 32 Highlands Ranch (10-12), 6 p.m. Game 2: No. 16 Overland (14-9) vs. No. 17 Broomfield (17-6), TBA Game 3: No. 8 Eaglecrest (16-7) vs. No. 25 Castle View (12-11), 7 p.m. Game 4: No. 9 Ralston Valley (18-5) vs. No. 24 Arapahoe (11-12), TBA Game 5: No. 5 Rock Canyon (18-5) vs. No. 28 Rocky Mountain (13-10), TBA Game 6: No. 12 Douglas County (15-8) vs. No. 21 Arvada…

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One of the two victims in an early Friday morning double shooting at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was a student, Colorado Springs police announced Sunday. Samuel Knopp, 24, a student at UCCS from Parker, and Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, from Pueblo, who was not a student, were the two people killed just before 6 a.m. Friday after the campus police department received a call about shots fired in a Crestone House dorm room, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department in a Sunday post on X. On Saturday, February 17, 2024, The El Paso County Coroner’s Office…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Ryan Feltner hoped 2023 would be his breakout season. In the blink of an eye, a 92.7 mph line drive to his head shattered those plans. Undeterred, the Rockies’ 27-year-old right-hander enters spring training in the best place of his career, confident he can earn a spot in the starting rotation. “Everything happens for a reason, so I’m framing it in my mind that maybe it’s a good thing that everything happened the way it did,” Feltner said Sunday after a morning workout at the club’s complex at Salt River Fields. “I faced a big hurdle, overcame…

There were moments Sunday afternoon that could have confounded the Colorado Avalanche, a club desperate to dig out of a recent slump. Eventually, the Avs’ top players created one sequence of brilliance and it was enough for a much-needed win. Devon Toews scored with 6:43 remaining on a shot set up by Nathan MacKinnon’s will and Jonathan Drouin’s skill, and the Avs prevailed with a 4-3 victory against the Arizona Coyotes. “It’s never going to as smooth as you plan,” Avs coach Jared Bednar. “In order to be successful, you have to be mentally tough. There was never a sense…

More than 100 animals have found a new home at the Denver Zoo after being rescued from the recently closed SeaQuest interactive aquarium in Littleton. SeaQuest closed Feb. 4 after being the subject of numerous citations, investigations over customer injuries and animal welfare complaints since it opened in the Southwest Plaza mall in 2018. The Denver Zoo, along with Downtown Aquarium Denver, led efforts over the past week to monitor, evaluate and place the animals, zoo officials said Friday in a news release, and the Zoo took in nearly 130 animals. Many of the animals — which included a keel-billed…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Outfielder David Dahl and reliever Austin Brice agreed to minor league contracts with the Philadelphia Phillies and were at big league spring training on Sunday. Dahl, 29, was an All-Star with Colorado in 2019 and started last season with San Diego. He went 1 for 9 with a solo homer, then was put on the injured list because of a strained right quadriceps. Dahl hit .265 with one homer and 10 RBIs in 17 games with Triple-A El Paso and elected to become a free agent rather than accept an outright assignment. He signed with the…