November 12, 2020
A UC expert discusses a new study from the University of Oxford that shows around 20% of COVID-19 survivors are struggling with mental health issues after recovering from the disease.
November 9, 2020
Dr. Katie Burns, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, discusses her battle with endometriosis, up close and personal and inside the lab. She is seeking a better treatment and hopefully a cure to a condition that affects one in 10 women.
November 20, 2020
UC researchers treated their first study patient this week using a new cancer therapy that takes less than one second. This clinical trial is being hosted at the Cincinnati Children's/UC Health Proton Therapy Center.
November 18, 2020
Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, was interviewed by several media outlets including WLWT-TV, after Moderna reported 95% efficacy in preliminary analysis of its COVID-19 trial. Fichtenbaum is the co-investigator of the trial of the vaccine at UC.
November 17, 2020
Richard Becker, MD, director of the University of Cincinnati Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute, also weighed in on a research finding out of Spain. The observational study of 9,000 elderly patients on oral anticoagulants suggests bleeding thought related to antithrombotic therapy may be an early warning sign for as-yet-undetected cancer.
November 3, 2020
Deeptankar DeMazumder, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is the recipient of a 2020 National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The honor supports unusually innovative research from early career investigators who are within 10 years of their final degree or clinical residency and have not yet received an equivalent NIH grant.
November 2, 2020
A University of Cincinnati researcher has received a five-year $2.2 million grant to study the role a protein in muscles plays in the development of a rare disease known as distal arthrogryposis. The grant is from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
November 24, 2020
Cincinnati.com posted a story on what COVID-19 experts would recommend in regards to traditional family activities during the holidays. One of the experts consulted was Jennifer Forrester, MD, of the UC College of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases.
November 20, 2020
The Collaboration Network held a virtual conference on Racial and Health Inequities Exposed by COVID-19 featuring several presentations for the Cincinnati community including discussions or commentary from Andrew Beck, MD, a Cincinnati Children’s physician and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati; Karen Bankston, PhD, professor of emerita of the UC College of Nursing; and Amy Rule, MD, a Cincinnati Children’s physician and assistant professor of pediatrics at UC.
November 24, 2020
University of Cincinnati researchers have discovered new clues into why some people with head and neck cancer respond to immunotherapy, while others don’t.