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Eight-year-old Dakota Stevenson looks over Walthers pistols at the Smith & Wesson booth during the 136th NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits April 13, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

As Colorado reels from another school shooting, study finds 1 in 4 teens have quick access to guns

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Colorado considers changing its red flag law after mass shooting at nightclub

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Colorado Option’s big test: Open enrollment

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Cash for colonoscopies: Colorado tries to lower health costs through incentives

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Shop selling coffins and funeral wreaths (Getty Images/urbazon)

Death is anything but a dying business as private equity cashes in

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With more sizzling summers, Colorado changes how heat advisories are issued

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Sheriffs who denounced Colorado’s red flag law are now using It

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Downtown drugstore in the evening on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. (Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)

Local pharmacists fill Rx void as big brands pull out of rural areas

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Downtown drugstore in the evening on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. (Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)

How rural communities are losing their pharmacies

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Phuc Tran of Northeast D.C., receives the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Heidi Johnson, pediatric nurse practitioner, at Grubb's Pharmacy on Capitol Hill on Monday, April 12, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

COVID shot in the arm not enough to keep pharmacies in business

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What COVID-19 means for the athlete’s heart

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A photo taken on February 12, 2021 shows a box of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine at the university hospital, at the start of the inoculation with the AstraZeneca vaccine at the hospital, in Halle/Saale, eastern Germany. (JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)

Rural Americans in pharmacy deserts hurting for COVID vaccines

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Fans wearing masks enter the game between the Lafayette Jefferson Broncos and West Lafayette Red Devils at Lafayette Jefferson High School on August 21, 2020 in Lafayette, Indiana. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

Making money off masks, COVID-spawned chain store aims to become obsolete

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Joni Ernst, Cory Gardner (Reuters/Brian Frank/Rick Wilking)

Opposition to Obamacare becomes a political liability for Republican incumbents

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In this photo provided by the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, taken March 11, 2015 in the intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, physical therapist Katie Kellner helps patient Terry Culler do some exercises and briefly stand despite being hooked to a ventilator. There's increasing evidence that mild exercise may have its place even for the sickest ICU patients, and new animal research suggests it may target both muscles and lungs. (AP Photo/Warren Cameron Dennis III, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) (AP)

No, CPAPs can’t be used in place of ventilators. They could actually spread the coronavirus

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American pot is the gold standard. But Canada leads the export game — for now.

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Why hospitals are getting into the housing business

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Why red Wyoming seeks the regulatory approach to air ambulance costs

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