Emergency rooms see uptick with heat-related illnesses
June 24, 2024
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The University of Cincinnati's Caroline Freiermuth spoke with Spectrum News about how to look for signs of heat-related illness.
June 24, 2024
The University of Cincinnati's Caroline Freiermuth spoke with Spectrum News about how to look for signs of heat-related illness.
June 25, 2024
The University of Cincinnati's Wesley Baas spoke with Yahoo News and the Cincinnati Enquirer about a new male birth control gel that could be close to receiving FDA approval.
June 28, 2024
WVXU and the Cincinnati Business Courier highlighted a new collaboration between the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, UC Health GE HealthCare, JobsOhio, REDI Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s to create an MRI Research and Development Center of Excellence located on UC’s medical campus.
January 25, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Dr. Wenhai Shao, PhD, was featured in a Reuters Health article reviewing a study of COVID-19 vaccines' effect on patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
February 4, 2022
More people are taking supplemental melatonin, and at increasingly high doses, according to a research letter recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Researchers point out these findings raise safety concerns since the actual dose of melatonin supplements could be nearly 500 percent higher than the label indicates. In a story published by Healthline, Sarah Gallucci, DO, of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine was one of the experts cited reacting to the letter.
July 27, 2022
The latest COVID-19 subvariants have pushed hospitalizations and cases in Greater Cincinnati high enough that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week recommended indoor masking in eight local counties. Many people are experiencing symptoms including scratchy sore throat, runny nose, a cough and a headache, raising the question of whether the symptoms are from COVID or allergies. Cincinnati.com asked some local experts to weigh in, including Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine.
May 11, 2022
Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, associate professor and director of the Division of Rhinology, Allergy and Anterior Skull Base Surgery in the UC College of Medicine was interviewed for a story published by Scientific American on the differences between allergies and COVID-19.
June 27, 2022
Monday, June 27 is National HIV Testing Day and Local 12 interviewed Carl FIchtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the UC College of Medicine about a report showing a decrease in new HIV cases during the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 5, 2022
The Biden administration has declared the growing monkeypox outbreak a national health emergency, a rare designation signaling that the virus now represents a significant risk to Americans and setting in motion new measures aimed at containing the threat. Cases of the virus have been confirmed in Greater Cincinnati. WVXU interviewed Jennifer Forrester, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine to learn more about how it spreads and how contagious it is.
April 6, 2023
City Beat interviewed Susan Pinney, PhD, of the Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences in the UC College of Medicine about ongoing research around climate change in the Cincinnati area.