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Bullying is unwanted often aggressive behaviors, in which someone intentionally and potentially repeatedly causes another person physical or emotional harm. Bullying takes on many forms and can happen to individuals of all ages. As stated by President Obama “being bullied is not just a rite of passage or part of growing up.”
Common examples of bullying include being:
Bring your child when shopping for a bicycle to make sure it's the right size for the child — not one they'll have to "grow into." The child’s feet should be able to touch the ground when sitting on the seat. Before using your bicycle, always make sure it's ready to ride by inspecting all parts are secure and working properly.
Backpacks are wonderful ways to carry our school supplies. But, as helpful as they might be, they can strain muscles and joints and cause back pain if they’re too heavy or are used incorrectly.
Heavy backpacks can affect a child’s body in many ways. The spine is made of 33 bones called vertebrae. These vertebrae have discs that help absorb the shock to our bodies as we walk and move. The strongest muscles in the body — the back and the abdominal muscles — support the pack.
About 100 children in the United States are killed every year while walking to or from school; another 25,000 children are injured as a result of school zone accidents. 1 in 5 children killed in traffic crashes are pedestrians.
In 2010, more than 4,000 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States and another 70,000 were injured. This means every 2 hours someone is killed because they were hit by a car. Every 8 minutes someone is injured.
Patients with anorexia nervosa often voice a multitude of symptoms in regards to their gastrointestinal tract. These complaints can complicate the treatment of their eating disorder as they distract attention from the important goal of weight restoration.
Denver Health’s school based health clinics (SBHC) offer a helping hand to Denver Public School (DPS) students and their families with no cost, convenient health care.
Denver Health operates 17 school based health centers located on DPS campuses throughout the city where students can receive health care at no cost to them or their families. Health care services provided by the SBHC are available to all 92,000 students in the Denver Public School system, whether or not there is a clinic on the campus where they attend school.
Dr. Debbie Rinehart, an associate research scientist at Denver Health’s Center for Health Systems research, has been awarded a PCORI Pipeline Award to create a patient advisory committee to ensure patient perspectives and needs are built into future research projects.
PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that focuses on improving patient care throughout the United States. Annual Pipeline Awards recognize researchers who study ways to improve relationships between patients, care givers and researchers.
Denver Health and Kaiser Permanente have launched Colorado Patient Partners in Research (CoPPiR) - a unique program that connects patients with ongoing research studies. This first of its kind program allows patients to become contributing members of research teams on a variety of health topics.
After an extensive national search, Denver Health is pleased to announce that Dr. Edward P. Havranek has been selected as our new Director of Medicine, effective immediately.
Dr. Havranek has been with Denver Health since 1991, first as the director of the cardiac catheterization lab and then as Acting Chief of Cardiology from 1994-1998. In his tenure at Denver Health, he has chaired various committees, served as a Medical Staff officer and has been the Director of Health Services Research since 2010. He has been the interim Director of Medicine since September 2015.
Dr. Kathy Wells, a pediatrician at Denver Health and the medical director for the Family Crisis Center, was named to Governor Hickenlooper’s Task Force on the Collection and Security of Digital Images of Child Abuse or Neglect earlier this month.
