August 20, 2020

Steve Woodle, MD, William A. Altemeier Chair in Research Surgery at the UC College of Medicine, spoke to a Fox 19 journalist about his latest research. He is part of a national team working on a new test that can determine the effectiveness of antibodies against COVID-19 and also does a better job of reducing false positives in detecting the novel coronavirus.

August 20, 2020

Claudia Rebola, PhD, discusses how a team at UC designed an app to study whether or not music can help combat chemobrain in patients with cancer.

August 19, 2020

Maria Espinola, PsyD, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the UC College of Medicine, offers advice for parents wishing to talk to their children about staying safe in the midst of COVID-19. Schools are reopening and parents are anxious as the pandemic continues.

August 17, 2020

First-year medical student Dalton Hartwick of Cicero, Indiana, shared his thoughts about attending medical school in the midst of a pandemic at the University of Cincinnati with Spectrum News reporter Camri Nelson. Hartwick is one of 182 incoming first-year medical students attending UC.

August 13, 2020

Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the UC College of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases, is the medical director of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial. He is quoted by CNN in a story on the trial and the chances of having a vaccine ready to go by election day in November.

August 10, 2020

UC's Jeffrey Strawn was involved in developing an app to help patients combat anxiety related to COVID-19.

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.

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.

August 6, 2020

During a pandemic, cancer is all the more terrifying, uncertain, and lonely. UC Cancer Center researchers weigh in.

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.