April 8, 2003
A recent study conducted at UC found that a low carbohydrate (Atkins) diet was more effective than a low fat, calorie-controlled diet for short-term weight loss. The study, is published in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
April 4, 2003
The UC Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Sciences stand among the nation's most reputable graduate colleges and programs, according to the latest U.S.News & World Report rankings.
April 3, 2003
The UC Medical Center and the VA Medical Center take part in a major new study to lower the risk of heart disease and stroke in adults with type-2 diabetes.
April 2, 2003
The VA Medical Center and the UC College of Medicine establish a site to study adults with complex medical or psychiatric disorders.
April 2, 2003
UC Just Community will host a free spring lecture titled "Living in Uneasy Times: Strategies for Coping" on April 14 from noon to 1 p.m. in E351 of the Medical Sciences Building.
March 20, 2003
The University of Cincinnati (UC), with partners Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and The Ohio State University (OSU), will receive $750,000 in federal funding to support NetWellness (netwellness.org), the Internet health resource founded at UC in 1995
March 19, 2003
A presentation sponsored by the UC College of Medicine entitled Ethics and Policy in the Age of Genetics and Medicine will be given by Eric M. Meslin, PhD, director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, on Thursday, March 20, from 4-5 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, UC College of Medicine Medical Sciences Building.
March 10, 2003
The University of Cincinnati College of Nursing has awarded the National Speaking of Women's Health (SWH) Scholarship for a Women's Health graduate student at the UC College of Nursing to Holly Hinkle, RN, BSN.
March 7, 2003
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard have newly published studies showing that mutations of the human PLN gene are linked to heart failure. The UC research, led by Litsa Kranias, PhD, professor of pharmacology and cell biophysics, appears in the February 26 edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigations.
February 28, 2003
Marilyn Hughes Gaston, MD, University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine alumna and former assistant surgeon general and director of the Bureau of Primary Health Care, is the keynote speaker at a town meeting hosted by UC and The Health Alliance on March 11.
February 28, 2003
Elwood V. Jensen, PhD, visiting professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Medical Center, is the first person to receive the John and Gladys Strauss Chair in Cancer Research.
February 19, 2003
The Board of Advisors of the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing is seeking nominations for the 11th annual Florence Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing.
February 18, 2003
Mitchell Rashkin, MD, professor of internal medicine, pulmonary division, at theUniversity of Cincinnati (UC) recently answered the 20,000th question for NetWellness.
February 18, 2003
Four major research universities in Ohio and Kentucky are collaborating to promote economic development in life sciences and biotechnology.
February 13, 2003
Joseph Broderick, MD, chair of the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Neurology, received the 2003 William M. Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke from the Stroke Council of the American Stroke Association.
February 7, 2003
In a ceremony held Jan. 14, 2003, Kenneth Olden, PhD, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP), received the inaugural Paul B. Hammond award.
January 31, 2003
An internationally recognized authority on fetal surgery will lecture at the UC Medical Center, representing the first of a series of lectures on fetal surgery presented by the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob/Gyn).
January 31, 2003
UC Medical Center physicians Lynne Wagoner, MD, and Harvey Hahn, MD, are teaming up with The University Hospital to celebrate National Heart Failure Awareness Week, Feb. 10-14, 2003.
January 31, 2003
The UC College of Nursing announces the availability of a new scholarship for a full-time student in the Women s Health Graduate Nursing Program.
January 21, 2003
Results of a study done by a team of researchers working in the laboratories of Michael Lehman, PhD, professor, Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy at the UC College of Medicine, will appear in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience.