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DENVER - Earlier this week, a former Rose Medical Center scrub technician was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stealing a powerful narcotic, and infecting patients with hepatitis C. Colorado lawmakers are now pushing for stricter regulations to protect patients in the future.

Education, locks are prescription for ending teen drug abuse

Over the counter antacids, vitamins, allergy relief pills and plenty of prescription medications, all expired, were carefully counted out Saturday morning in Ballwin Police headquarters.

Over the counter antacids, vitamins, allergy relief pills and plenty of prescription medications, all expired, were carefully counted out Saturday morning in Ballwin Police headquarters.

People suffering from chronic lower back pain may find relief through cognitive behavioral therapy, a short-term treatment aimed at challenging and reframing negative beliefs.

Total knee replacement involves not only surgery but physical therapy. Full recuperation might take as long as a year.

A dentist without an active license or federal credentials to dispense controlled substances repeatedly signed a log in 2008 and 2009 detailing the use, disposal and inventory of powerful sedatives at the University of Colorado dental school.

A new lawsuit filed against Greenwich Hospital over its handling of a drug-addicted surgeon is adding fuel to the fire surrounding the case, bringing the total number of former patients seeking damages to nine women.

ANDERSON COUNTY —Christopher Whiten, a young man with everything to live for, swallowed a mix of painkillers the night of Nov. 3, 2009, went to bed and died.By the time Whiten’s fiancee, Carley Smith, who slept on the living room couch because of Chris’s “unusually loud snoring,” came into the bedroom to wake him the following morning, he had been dead for hours.He was the 36th person in ...