Health and Medicine Reporter — The Denver Post
John Ingold
John Ingold was a Denver Post reporter from 2000-2018.
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Fourteen Colorado schools have 100 percent vaccination rates. See if your child’s school is one of them.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has made available school and district-level data on immunization rates, which show that the vast majority of Colorado kids are up to...

Colorado hospitals launch ambitious program to reduce opioid addiction
Eight Colorado hospitals and three freestanding emergency rooms are participating in a pilot program to reduce opioid prescriptions and find better ways to treat pain, using new guidelines that one...

Repealing Medicaid expansion could hit Colorado budget especially hard, study finds
Colorado could be on the hook for spending close to $700 million more per year by 2023 if the federal government does away with its enhanced contribution to the Medicaid...

Rain doesn’t wash away annual Denver Day of Rock festival
Sporadic rain showers on Saturday didn't damper the fun at the eighth annual Denver Day of Rock festival, which goes to support a nonprofit organization that provides grants and other...

Leaking natural gas well in northeastern Colorado shut down
A leaking natural gas storage well that prompted evacuations in far northeastern Colorado has been shut down, nearly two days after the leak began.

Victim of Mead oil tank explosion identified as Greeley man
Weld County authorities on Saturday identified 32-year-old Oscar Lopez Velasquez, of Greeley, as the worker who was killed in an oil tank explosion near Mead earlier in the week that...

Anadarko faces investor lawsuit over Firestone house explosion
Anadarko Petroleum, the oil and gas giant that owns the Firestone well linked to a fatal house explosion, is now facing at least two lawsuits over the incident, including a...

Hickenlooper vows to “take any necessary action” following deadly Mead oil tank explosion
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, responding to the explosion at a Weld County oil and gas facility that killed one worker and injured three more, vowed Friday that he will, "take...

Leaking natural gas well near Sterling prompts evacuations
A leaking natural gas well at the East Cheyenne Gas Storage facility north of Sterling, in far northeastern Colorado, has prompted evacuation orders that could last into the weekend but...

Colorado lawmakers greet CBO score on Republican health care plan with scorn, support
Colorado lawmakers feuded Wednesday night over the release of a new report that showed the Republican healthcare plan that passed the U.S. House in early May would lead to a...