October 22, 2020
Maria Espinola, PsyD, assistant professor in the UC College of Medicine, spoke with a journalist for Poynter to discuss the COVID-19 impact on Latinos seeking mental health services. She urged cultural competence for clinicians and healthcare workers providing care for Latinos in the midst of COVID-19.
October 28, 2020
Alvin Crawford, MD, professor emeritus at the UC College of Medicine, and second-year medical student Austin Thompson spoke with Spectrum News about a new program mentoring program tailored to assist black male medical students titled “Black Men in Medicine Cincinnati.”
October 29, 2020
Richard Becker, MD, director of the UC Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, and UC Health cardiologist, spoke with Healthline about a new study that finds people who want to stay heart healthy should avoid drinking artificially sweetened beverages like diet soda. Becker says water should be the beverage of choice.
October 29, 2020
Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the UC College of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases is featured as the primary source in a story in the Huffington Post on whether or not it's safe to get a massage during the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 27, 2020
A Cincinnati surgeon has been named among the nation’s top “40 under 40” in cancer care.
June 3, 2020
Richard Becker, MD, director the University of Cincinnati Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, spoke with Science magazine writer Catherine Matacic for a story that looks at the impact COVID-19 has on blood vessels in the body.
June 4, 2020
The COVID-19 Watcher, developed by two University of Cincinnati students, displays data from every county and 188 metropolitan areas in the country. Features of the dashboard include ranking of the worst affected areas and auto-generating plots that depict temporal changes in testing capacity, cases and deaths. The COVID-19 Watcher can provide the public with real-time updates of outbreaks in their area. The app pulls in data from the New York Times, which has been tracking COVID-19 cases since January, and merges it with sources from the U.S. Census to map cases for each county and metropolitan area.