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Legacy of federal opioid intervention: communities equipped to act

June 17, 2024

A national effort to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths has laid the groundwork for more widely available opioid use disorder treatment, safer prescribing practices, and community-based overdose education and naloxone distribution that can save lives, according to researchers who led Ohio’s participation in the initiative.

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Thrombectomy less beneficial in large-core stroke

June 11, 2024

The University of Cincinnati's Joseph Broderick commented to Medscape on a recent trial that found patients with the largest volume of stroke tissue injury benefit less from thrombectomy, a procedure that uses a catheter to remove a blood clot from a blood vessel in the brain, which restores blood flow.

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UC research creates Kidney Transplant Equity Index

May 3, 2022

New research out of the University of Cincinnati established the Kidney Transplant Equity Index, examining the number of minority patients transplanted at a kidney transplant center relative to the prevalence of minority patients on dialysis in each center’s health service area.

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WOSU: Breast cancer screening and transgender patients

April 22, 2021

Dr. Annie Brown, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, discusses health disparities in the LGBTQ+ community and new breast cancer screening recommendations for transgender patients with WOSU-FM public radio.

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Halt cell recycling to treat cancer

February 8, 2021

University of Cincinnati researchers have shown that completely halting a cell recycling process in a very aggressive form of breast cancer may improve outcomes for patients one day.