As record heat, wildfires and flooding become increasingly common in Colorado and beyond, the University of Colorado is training a new generation of what it calls “climate doctors.” The University’s Climate & Health Program prepares physicians to treat the health impacts of climate change in individual patients, while also advocating…
    He was a 31-year-old gay man, diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s, the terrifying early years of a deadly pandemic. He must have been terrified. But he was fortunate. For six years, unlike his friends and partners, he never fell sick. Eventually he donated some blood to a research project…
    The first story in our six-part series examining health care in rural America.…