Volume 2, Issue 8 | April 20, 2022

Nexplanon Birth Control Implant Use When Primarily Using a Combined Birth Control Pill

Started a birth control pill, or are you planning to? Are you willing to use a birth control implant?

Associative Threat Learning: Measuring Mechanisms for Treating Threat-based Psychopathologies

We are studying how learning style affects how people with social anxiety respond to therapy. Participants in this study will be able to access 12 free, evidence-based therapy sessions for social anxiety and complete two brain scans in an MRI.

Research About the Potential for the Contraceptive Implant as Emergency Contraception

• Participation will last up to 6 weeks and consist of visits around the time of ovulation for transvaginal ultrasounds and blood draws.
• Visits include insertion of a birth control implant containing etonogestrel.

The Lung PCA: A Multi-Dimensional Atlas of Pulmonary Premalignancy

Pre-screening of veteran and non-veteran subjects at high risk for the development of lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) will be identified and enrolled to undergo serial bronchoscopies at 12-month intervals over a 2-3 year period. Participation is voluntary, and patients will be apprised of their condition over the course of the bronchoscopies to ensure they receive quality health care for their condition, cancerous or not. 

Cardiovascular Outcomes of Low Testosterone

Volunteers are needed for a research study regarding how the loss of testosterone affects the heart and artery function in men.

Male Birth Control Gel

Are you interested in new male birth control? We are seeking couples for a male birth control gel study.

Breaking Up Sedentary Time to Improve Glucose Control in a Population at Risk for Developing Type 2 Diabetes

The BREAK strategy consists of 5-minute bouts of brisk walking performed hourly for 9 hours/day, 5 days per week, and the ONE strategy consists of a single 45-minute bout of brisk walking 5 days per week. The intervention will be maintained for two more months and glucose control will be tested. Participants will be male and female adult volunteers with overweight or obesity and pre-diabetes, a population that may be seeking physical activity options to control glucose.

Veterans Needed for Food Research Study

Veterans are needed for a research study that aims to learn more about how men and women differ in their brains respond to food and hunger. It also plans to learn more. Veterans are needed for a research study that aims to learn more about how men and women differ in the way their brains respond to food and hunger. It also plans to learn more about how hormones and the menstrual cycle affect these responses about how hormones and the menstrual cycle affect these responses.

Body Weight and Asthma Research Study - No asthma diagnosis required

• We are looking for volunteers ages 18-65 with AND without asthma.
• Up to 3 visits will be at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and will include a baseline evaluation, methacholine challenge visit, and bronchoscopy for collection of airway epithelial cells. 
• Duration of Participation: approximately 1-2 months, depending on scheduling. Compensation is provided.

Research about IUD Displacement With Menstrual Cup Insertion and Removal

Participation will include 1 study visit. Participation will consist of a pelvic exam, 3 transvaginal ultrasounds, and 2 menstrual cup insertions and removals.