 Tuesday, June 30, 2026 | | |
| | | | | BY MEG WINGERTER A group of people who signed up for a study on preventing diabetes back in the late '90s are still providing insights about how to be healthier. Researchers originally divided the participants in three groups – one with intensive lifestyle coaching, one that got a drug to lower blood sugar and a control group – and found that lifestyle change was effective in preventing high-risk people from developing diabetes. About 25 years later, the lifestyle change group still had fewer chronic conditions than the others, even though they'd generally regained weight and cut back on exercising. I talked to some experts about why that might be. | | | | In the late 90s, about 120 people in Colorado with prediabetes joined a study to determine the best way to prevent it from progressing to Type 2 diabetes. | | | | | The decision is a victory for the Trump administration. | | | | | The development comes amid a growing, weekslong, flu outbreak at the U.S. Air Force’s boot camp at Lackland Air Force Base that has sickened nearly 300 people. | | | | | Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement that state attorneys are reviewing whether the ruling leaves any room for the waiver to move forward, and that he hopes Congress will amend the law to allow for soft-drink bans. | | | | | A pair of Jefferson County businessmen defrauded $12 million from Colorado’s Medicaid program by charging the state healthcare program for eyeglasses that did not exist, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser alleged in a June indictment. | | | | | At about the same time that Denver Health reached its lowest point, two rural hospitals were also publicly struggling: Delta Health on the Western Slope, and St. Vincent Health in Leadville. | | | |
