Ruby Sisson Library

"The book of the dead is the morgue log. For Kay Scarpetta, it has a new meaning. Moving to Charleston, she opens a forensic pathology practice in which she and her colleagues, including Pete Marion and her niece, Lucy, offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack access to modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the battles start with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose...

Access to local-level health data to help users determine the health status of a neighborhood, community, county, or region in Colorado. Includes birth, death, and population statistics and behavioral risk factors.

Bibliography of documents produced by the Registry using information gathered from Colorado health care providers.

Maximize your Medicare explains: How Medicare works, why Medicare is easily misunderstood, your rights and options under Medicare, how private plans (group, Medicare Advantage, Medigap) interact with Medicare, how to choose the best configuration, and pitfalls to avoid.

When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. An accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg. Surgeons save the leg, but the open wound becomes a breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader. Hundreds of miles away, a teenaged girl is fighting against the same bacteria. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic, and the government scientist tasked with finding...

The Research and Evidence-Based Policy (REP) team in the Governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting(OSPB) has reviewed programs in the Results First health policy area. The team has developed a program inventory of programs/services delivered in the state, ranked them on their predicted effectiveness based on national/state research, and estimated the benefits of these programs. Contrary to prior Results First reports, the traditional cost-benefit...