Elemental: The unique devastation of cancer in a pandemic
August 6, 2020
During a pandemic, cancer is all the more terrifying, uncertain, and lonely. UC Cancer Center researchers weigh in.
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Addressing anxiety with an app
August 5, 2020
Jeffrey Strawn, MD, teamed up with experts at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to create an app to help children deal with anxiety caused by the pandemic.
The New York Times: School Closures in the Spring Saved Lives,...
August 4, 2020
Katherine Auger, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC associate professor of pediatrics, and Samir Shah, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC professor of pediatrics, are authors of a new COVID-19 study in the Journal of American Medical Association,. It found that closing schools across most of the U.S. in March, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, likely reduced infections by 1 million and saved more than 40,000 people from dying due to the virus.
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Elemental: The unique devastation of cancer in a pandemic
August 6, 2020
During a pandemic, cancer is all the more terrifying, uncertain, and lonely. UC Cancer Center researchers weigh in.
Addressing anxiety with an app
August 5, 2020
Jeffrey Strawn, MD, teamed up with experts at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to create an app to help children deal with anxiety caused by the pandemic.
The New York Times: School Closures in the Spring Saved Lives,...
August 4, 2020
Katherine Auger, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC associate professor of pediatrics, and Samir Shah, MD, Cincinnati Children’s physician and UC professor of pediatrics, are authors of a new COVID-19 study in the Journal of American Medical Association,. It found that closing schools across most of the U.S. in March, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, likely reduced infections by 1 million and saved more than 40,000 people from dying due to the virus.
US News and World Report: Tips on How to Recognize and Treat a...
July 31, 2020
Maria Espinola, PsyD, assistant professor in the UC College of Medicine, explains what separates a nervous breakdown from an otherwise difficult time in your life is how well you can keep your emotions in check. Feelings that you would normally be able to manage can erupt. “During a nervous breakdown, fear can turn into terror, sadness into despair and hopelessness, and anger into rage and fury,” Espinola says.
MSN: Working at a Laptop all day? How to combat the aches and...
July 30, 2020
Kermit Davis, PhD, expert in office ergonomics, conducted an ergonomic assessment of employees at the University of Cincinnati sending out an email survey to 4,500 faculty and staff after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the university to join many other employers across the nation in sending workers home to continue operations.
UC Answers: How are UC researchers tackling COVID-19?
July 29, 2020
Brett Kissela, MD, discusses ways UC researchers are making an impact during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sit up, raise the screen, pad the chair
July 28, 2020
Kermit Davis, PhD, conducted an ergonomic assessment of employees at the University of Cincinnati sending out an email survey to 4,500 faculty and staff after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the university to join many other employers across the nation in sending workers home to continue operations. The survey had 843 people complete it. As part of the study, 41 employees sent Davis photos of workers at home workstations for ergonomic review. This subset showed some trends and offered a glimpse into what many who work from home are encountering. The survey’s findings were recently published in the scholarly journal Ergonomics in Design.
Conquering COVID-19
July 28, 2020
UC and UC Health researchers are conducting research around the clock to fight COVID-19 and find out more about the virus.
Controlling inflammation in COVID-19 patients may lessen...
July 24, 2020
Steve Davidson, PhD, is trying to understand what occurs when COVID-19 invades the lungs causing the body’s immune cells go into overdrive. The University of Cincinnati researcher was part of a team of scientists studying the body’s response when viral particles carrying COVID-19 enter the lungs, and the body — specifically its immune system — and react in a catastrophic way.
US News & World Report: Immunotherapy and cancer, COVID-19
July 21, 2020
National media outlets report on new UC findings that show immunotherapy will not worsen complications for patients who have cancer and COVID-19.
USA Today: Up the nose, into the brain?
July 20, 2020
Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, associate professor in the UC College of Medicine and UC Health physician, spoke with journalist Terry DeMio about a correlation between the loss of smell and taste and depression in COVID-19 patients.
Uplifting stories help #UCtheGood
July 16, 2020
UC Marketing + Communications gathers recent uplifting stories to help the community focus on the good during coronavirus pandemic.
UC COVID-19 research examines the safety and efficacy of immune...
July 15, 2020
Researchers at UC are testing a commonly used drug, called sirolimus, to determine its safety and efficacy in treating hospitalized patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in the trial. The research trial, called Sirolimus Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia (SCOPE), will examine the Food and Drug Administration-approved medication that is most commonly used to prevent organ rejection in patients with kidney transplants. It is also FDA-approved for the treatment of a rare lung disease, LAM.
Healthline: Lysol disinfectant approved for use against...
July 14, 2020
Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine was featured as a source in a story on Healthline on the FDA approval of using the disinfectant Lysol against COVID-19.
COVID-19 may attack patients’ central nervous system
July 14, 2020
Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, conducted a prospective, cross-sectional telephone questionnaire study which examined characteristics and symptoms of 114 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 over a six-week period at Kantonsspital Aarau in Aarau, Switzerland. Depressed mood or anxiety exhibited in COVID-19 patients may possibly be a sign the virus affects the central nervous system, according to Sedaghat, a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine researcher.