Health reporter

Meg Wingerter

Meg Wingerter covers health for The Denver Post. She joined the newspaper in February 2019 as an education reporter, before switching to health in 2020. She previously worked at The Oklahoman, Kansas News Service, The Topeka (Kansas) Capitol-Journal and The Muskegon (Michigan) Chronicle. She previously won awards for business coverage in Kansas and for column writing in Michigan.

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Denver’s InnovAge was struggling long before Medicare stopped paying

July 3, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.

A company tasked with caring for some of Colorado's sickest people failed to consistently provide basic services like insulin injections for more than a year before state and federal authorities...

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How Coloradans are trying to thwart antibiotic-resistant bacteria: “It’s a silent pandemic”

June 11, 2022 at 6:03 a.m.

Efforts to create new antibiotics face significant hurdles: a Colorado senator's bill to give drug companies incentives has stalled, and a different type of treatment being researched in Boulder is...

Caregiver Jessica Duarte, right, checks blood ...

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Colorado nursing homes face pandemic-worsened staffing crisis: “It’s a struggle on a daily basis”

March 18, 2022 at 2:10 p.m.

It's never been easy finding workers willing to help others with their most personal bodily functions for not much more than they'd earn at a fast-food restaurant, but the pandemic...

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Staff scrambling after Children’s Hospital Colorado ends full tuition benefit for employees

December 12, 2023 at 9:19 a.m.

Leila Roche, a spokeswoman for Children’s, said when the Aurora hospital conducted its annual benefits assessment, it found that far more people than anticipated had used the full-tuition option.

The Prescription Drug Affordability Board unanimously voted against declaring Trikafta, a drug to treat cystic fibrosis, unaffordable at a meeting Friday morning. If the board had determined it was unaffordable, it would have kicked off a process of setting a maximum price.

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$200,000-a-year cystic fibrosis medication deemed “affordable” by Colorado review board because of coupons

December 11, 2023 at 9:58 a.m.

The Prescription Drug Affordability Board unanimously voted against declaring Trikafta, a drug to treat cystic fibrosis, unaffordable at a meeting Friday morning. If the board had determined it was unaffordable,...

In December 2016, the state health department published a plan to eliminate tuberculosis in Colorado within a decade. Seven years later, the disease is making a comeback, though it's not clear if that's a temporary aftershock of the pandemic or a longer-term problem.

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Tuberculosis cases rise in Colorado, making elimination goal less likely

December 7, 2023 at 12:35 p.m.

In December 2016, the state health department published a plan to eliminate tuberculosis in Colorado within a decade. Seven years later, the disease is making a comeback, though it's not...

A Colorado resident filed a lawsuit against Sima Sciences and Nuka Enterprises

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Adams County cannabis sleep supplement maker faces liver-damage accusations

December 6, 2023 at 4:11 p.m.

A maker of cannabis and herb supplements in Adams County recently settled one lawsuit and faces other claims after some people who took its marijuana-infused sleep aids said they developed...

A trial involving researchers at University of Colorado found it can be safe to transplant stem cells into the brains of people with at least one disabling illness, but the science has a long way to go before people heal with cells from embryos, or their own bodies.

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Colorado researchers find it can be safe to transplant stem cells into brains as multiple sclerosis treatment

December 4, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

A trial involving researchers at University of Colorado found it can be safe to transplant stem cells into the brains of people with at least one disabling illness, but the science...

One idea to bring care to more people with long COVID is building on Project Extension for Community Health Outcomes,, which connects primary care providers with specialists to learn how to manage certain conditions locally and to discuss complex patients.

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Colorado’s long COVID clinics can’t meet demand, so health leaders look to expand treatment

December 1, 2023 at 1:25 p.m.

One idea to bring care to more people with long COVID is building on Project Extension for Community Health Outcomes,, which connects primary care providers with specialists to learn how...

While breast cancer is most common in older women, about 27,000 patients under 45 are diagnosed each year. It is significantly rarer in women in their 20s.

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She was diagnosed with breast cancer at 22. This Coloradan wants young women to know their risk.

November 26, 2023 at 6:03 a.m.

While breast cancer is most common in older women, about 27,000 patients under 45 are diagnosed each year. It is significantly rarer in women in their 20s.

In early September, Children's Hospital Colorado asked healthy adults to consider donating a section of their livers.

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Children’s Hospital Colorado needed 10 people to donate part of their livers to sick kids. More than 100 stepped forward.

November 22, 2023 at 2:35 p.m.

In early September, Children's Hospital Colorado asked healthy adults to consider donating a section of their livers.

Scholars Unlimited, previously called Summer Scholars, has been offering literacy help to kids who are behind on reading around since the early 1990s.

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Denver-based Scholars Unlimited uses fun to boost kids’ literacy

November 22, 2023 at 2:19 p.m.

Scholars Unlimited, previously called Summer Scholars, has been offering literacy help to kids who are behind on reading around since the early 1990s.

Investigators from the state Department of Public Health and Environment criticized the Eating Recovery Center's Spruce Street location for how it treated two suicidal patients

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Denver’s Eating Recovery Center ignored patients’ repeated suicide attempts, state investigation finds

November 13, 2023 at 6:03 a.m.

A state investigation revealed that the two patients attempted suicide more than 15 times in the days after that email was sent, with one patient making 10 attempts in a...

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