June 8, 2021

Masks are coming off in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, thanks to widespread availability of the COVID-19 vaccine and politicians’ increasing willingness to let unvaccinated people roll the dice on their own health. WCPO-TV interviewed Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the UC College of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases who said any amount of vaccination is helpful in preventing the novel coronavirus from spreading, but unvaccinated people are still in danger as social gatherings and indoor events resume.

June 4, 2021

Hagar Elgendy, a recent University of Cincinnati medical school grad, moves her husband, Cedric Peerman, a former Cincinnati Bengal player, and their four kids to North Carolina as she completes her medical residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

April 6, 2021

Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine was one of three experts Cincinnati.com turned to on a story about when Ohio will gain herd immunity against COVID-19.

April 8, 2021

Kenneth E. Sherman, MD, PhD, is Gould Professor of Medicine and Director of the UC Division of Digestive Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine. He is this year recipient of the University of Cincinnati Distinguished Research Professor Award.

April 6, 2021

UC researchers are opening a national clinical trial to see if a therapy that has shown promise in treating lung and uterine cancer could be applied to pancreatic cancer, too.

April 7, 2021

Karthikeyan Sakthivel, a senior medical sciences undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati, has adopted Coy Field in an attempt to keep the green space clean and ready for use by UC students, area high schoolers and the community. Sakthivel is planning another cleanup event for Coy Field, which is adjacent to the university campus.

April 8, 2021

UC pediatrics assistant professor Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, shared her thoughts about vaccine guilt — a feeling associated with getting immunized for protection against COVID-19 before others — in an opinion piece on Yahoo News. Lanphier is an ethicist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

April 8, 2021

Reader’s Digest cited the research and expertise of Gaurav Gulati, MD, assistant professor in the UC Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology. Gulati has stated that particulates in air pollution and ultraviolet light can serve as an environmental triggers for lupus 'flares.'

March 31, 2021

Research from Lynne Haber, PhD, a toxicologist in the UC College of Medicine, uses patient data from multiple locations and mathematical models to estimate an “eliciting dose” — or the amount of peanut protein that will cause or elicit an allergic reaction in a certain percentage of peanut sensitive patients. The study was published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and has been featured in media reports.

April 9, 2021

Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the UC College of Medicine was featured in an article in Good Housekeeping on when we can expect to see COVID-19 vaccines ready to be given to children.