February 9, 2021
Tesfaye Mersha, a geneticist at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, says including African populations in genetics research is paving the way for a better understanding of the links between disease and genes in everyone, everywhere, because Africa holds more genomic diversity than any other continent.
February 12, 2021
Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine, was interviewed by a reporter writing a story on vaccine passports. Fichtenbaum doesn't see the benefit to them.
February 26, 2021
The Los Angeles Times published a story about more people considering road trips this spring and summer with more and more people getting vaccinated against COVID-19. As part of the story, Ann Romaker, MD, of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the UC College of Medicine discussed the importance of the proper amount of sleep for a safe road trip.
February 8, 2021
Shailendra Patel, MD, DPhil, director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Cincinnati, weighs in on a study that looks a the genetic underpinnings of Type 2 diabetes in youth.
March 19, 2021
Fourth-year medical students at the University of Cincinnati celebrated Match Day 2021 with social media posts, facetime visits, texts and calls to family and friends. UC had 174 matched students who now know where they will spend the next three to seven years completing a medical residency. They will be the future doctors of Cincinnati and beyond.
March 22, 2021
A UC study reveals a visual correlation between the severity of COVID-19 in the lungs (using CT scans) and the severity of effects on patients' brains (using MRI scans).
March 22, 2021
Hagar Elgendy, a fourth-year medical student, shared her Match Day experience with Cincinnati TV journalist Kristyn Hartman of WCPO. Elgendy will spend the next three years training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
March 26, 2021
Katie Phillips, MD, an associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, discusses spring's arrival with allergies in tow. Pollenating trees in the Tristate are making some resident miserable with itchy eyes, runny noses and congestion.
March 26, 2021
Lynne Haber, PhD, a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine senior toxicologist, ponders whether an 'eliciting dose' of peanut might help some with moderate or mild allergic reactions to peanuts have additional safe food options.
March 25, 2021
A team of UC College of Medicine researchers tackled a cardiac condition in Maine Coon cats after a baffled owner reached out for help. Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, lead a team that was able to identify a mutation in a gene known as troponin-T (TNNT2), which regulates heart contractility. It is present in humans, but this was the first time it was associated with heart disease in cats.