July 5, 2006

UC medical students are studying works of art in order to appreciate that medicine is often more an art than a science.

July 6, 2006

Medical oncologists across the nation want to know whether a certain drug combination can slow the progression of male breast cancer, a rare disease that often goes undiagnosed until it s in an advanced stage.

July 11, 2006

Breast cancer specialists at UC believe that a drug currently used to treat certain types of breast cancer may also help prevent the disease from ever developing in the women who are most vulnerable to it.

July 11, 2006

Beware! A mild winter and recent rain in the Ohio Valley have produced an abundance of poison ivy in the Tristate area.

July 17, 2006

Environmental and occupational health experts at the UC have found that major countries including India, China and Malaysia still produce and sell consumer paints with dangerously high lead levels.

July 18, 2006

Wearing sunglasses to protect your eyes from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays is a brilliant idea, a UC ophthalmologist says, but be sure when choosing those shades you re not just making a fashion statement.

July 24, 2006

Preliminary results of a study led by UC scientists suggest that reducing corticosteroid treatment in kidney transplant patients significantly lowers the toxic side effects of anti-rejection drugs without affecting survival rates.

July 25, 2006

The Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati and University Hospital is one of 45 sites participating in a multi-center, observational research study of individuals who belong to families with Huntington's disease.

July 25, 2006

Women who suffer from painful, heavy menstrual cycles due to uterine fibroids have a new, noninvasive treatment option that allows them to avoid the operating room completely.

July 27, 2006

New research from UC shows that dark-skinned people commonly thought to be immune to most skin cancers are more likely than whites to die from skin cancer and its related complications.