November 21, 2022
The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center's Davendra Sohal joined 55KRC's Simply Medicine program to discuss pancreatic cancer clinical trial options and screening during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
November 21, 2022
The Thanksgiving holiday brings with it plenty of travel. Spectrum News posted a story about staying healthy while traveling, featuring comments from Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine.
November 17, 2022
The Cincinnati Business Courier reports the University of Cincinnati is celebrating its largest enrollment in history at the start of 2022-2023 fall semester, a count just shy of 48,000. The milestone bucks a national trend that showed undergraduate enrollment dipped 1.1% last fall and graduate enrollment was down 1%, according to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
November 17, 2022
Yahoo News published a story produced by Prevention Magazine that looked at the causes of goosebumps. One of the experts they cited was Diya Mutasim, MD, of the Department of Dermatology in the UC College of Medicine.
November 17, 2022
The Cincinnati Enquirer featured the story of Dr. Alan Jobe, a Cincinnati Children's researcher who has beaten the odds of a glioblastoma diagnosis with the help of his team of University of Cincinnati physicians.
November 17, 2022
According to a report in early 2022 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 37 million people in the United States have diabetes, which is more than 11% of the population. Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2017 based on the death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death. A newly launched University of Cincinnati partnership is aiming to put a dent in those numbers in Greater Cincinnati.
October 19, 2022
COVID-19 cases are declining across Greater Cincinnati, but this time of the year is also traditionally the peak for respiratory illnesses meaning the virus will probably hang on into next year. WVXU interviewed some local infectious disease experts for a story on what to expect from COVID-19 during the fall and winter months. One of those was Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine.
October 18, 2022
Sarah Pickle, MD, often hears transgender patients express gratitude for being celebrated by their health care team. Pickle, a physician with UC Health and an associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UC College of Medicine, is an advocate for transgender medicine within her practice and at the college.
October 17, 2022
The phone call changed the trajectory of Justin Kenney’s life.
October 17, 2022
Local media covered the 13th annual Walk Ahead for a Brain Tumor Cure event, which raised more than $200,000 for the UC Brain Tumor Center.
October 17, 2022
Richard Becker, MD, of the UC Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute, was quoted in Medscape about research showing the ability of an Apple Watch to detect atrial fibrillation is significantly affected by underlying ECG abnormalities such as sinus node dysfunction, atrioventricular block, or intraventricular conduction delay.
October 17, 2022
Treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) — a type of high blood pressure that affects arteries in the lungs and in the heart — have improved significantly over the past 15 to 20 years and researchers at the University of Cincinnati have been at the forefront of those improvements. The result of a series of studies UC researchers were part of have allowed new medications to come to market for patients with PAH.
October 14, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, joined the Five to Thrive Live podcast to discuss "Humanizing Brain Tumors."
October 13, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Jeffrey Strawn, MD, is senior author of a new editorial in JAMA discussing new recommendations that children and adolescents ages 8 to 18 should be screened for anxiety disorders.
October 12, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Pooja Khatri joined NBC News' Meet the Press Now to discuss stroke recovery in light of Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman campaigning while recovering from a stroke.
October 11, 2022
Hoxworth and Make-A-Wish team up to grant a wish for local teen battling leukemia
October 10, 2022
Local 12 News and 55KRC's Simply Medicine podcast highlighted the the University of Cincinnati Gardner Neuroscience Institute's transformation into a Learning Health System, beginning with work in epilepsy.
October 10, 2022
Two state grants for over $2 million awarded to UC research and development of personal protection equipment and technology.
October 7, 2022
A University of Cincinnati Venture Lab-backed startup is developing a breast cancer treatment that may be more effective with fewer side effects thanks to RNA nanotechnology that is similar to what was used to produce COVID-19 vaccines.
October 6, 2022
The University of Cincinnati Foundation recognized its Outstanding Philanthropic Volunteer Award honorees at the George Rieveschl Recognition Dinner on Oct. 6, 2022.
October 6, 2022
The University of Cincinnati Brain Tumor Center (BTC) held its second-annual Clinical Research Retreat on Sept. 30, bringing researchers from around the country together to discuss advancements in neuro-oncology clinical research.
October 6, 2022
U.S. News & World Report highlighted recent research from the University of Cincinnati that supports the hypothesis that Alzheimer’s disease is caused by a decline in levels of a protein called amyloid-beta.
October 6, 2022
The University of Cincinnati is committing $12 million to grow inclusive excellence by leveraging diverse perspectives to advance innovation, creativity and complex problem solving in biomedical research. The new program, FIRST+ Lives Here for Urban Health, aligns with the National Institutes of Health’s FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) Program and advances the university’s Next Lives Here strategic direction.
October 6, 2022
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are leading the CAPSTONE study that will learn more about how inflammation affects patient recovery after intracerebral hemorrhage strokes.
October 5, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Rifat Wahab, DO, joined WPFW's What's at Stake radio show and podcast to discuss Breast Cancer Awareness Month and racial disparities in breast cancer.
October 4, 2022
University of Cincinnati researchers led by Alberto Espay and Andrea Sturchio published new research that supports the hypothesis that Alzheimer’s disease is caused by a decline in levels of a protein called amyloid-beta.
October 3, 2022
Donald Batisky, MD, has been named associate dean for medical student admissions and special programs at the College of Medicine
October 3, 2022
Samvid Scholarship recognizes Chinmay Bakshi, A&S ’21, as future changemaker after an extraordinary undergraduate career that focused on both research and public service
September 30, 2022
Cases of monkeypox are on the rise around world, reaching more than 67,000, including more than 25,000 in the United States. NPR reported that researchers say these types of viruses, known as zoonotic diseases, or ones that spread between humans and animals, will become increasingly commonplace as factors such as the destruction of animal habitats and human expansion into previously uninhabited areas intensify. In a story on zoonotic diseases, NPR cited several experts including Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the UC College of Medicine.
September 29, 2022
Laser Focus World's Photonics Hot List highlighted the recent work of the University of Cincinnati's Jiajie Diao, PhD, who published research demonstrating a technique that uses light to help naturally balance mitochondria within cells.
September 28, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Alberto Espay, MD, was featured in an NBC News article reporting on results from a phase three Alzheimer's drug trial.
September 27, 2022
Sian Cotton, PHD, Turner Farm Foundation Chair, professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine, and Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC has been selected to receive the 2022 Staff Award of Merit as part of the UC Foundation Outstanding Philanthropic Volunteer Awards.
September 27, 2022
UC's Ann Brown, MD, and breast cancer survivor Michele Young talked with WLWT about House Bill 371, a new law that requires insurance companies to cover additional screenings for individuals who are at high risk for breast cancer or have dense breast tissue, going into effect.
September 27, 2022
Cincinnati.com interviewed some local experts about the upcoming flu season, including Jennifer Forrester, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine.
Event: October 16, 2022 8:00 AM
Christmas Day 2015 was a memorable one for Stephanie Cox and her family. Her stepfather, Al Williams, had an acoustic neuroma brain tumor removed at UC Health and was home in time for the holiday.
Event: September 29, 2022 3:00 PM
The Register previewed the upcoming Reduce Your Risk Health Fair in Crosby Township and featured comments from UC's Susan Pinney, PhD, about the importance of screening for those who lived near or worked at the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center.