Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glass Beads
October 12, 2006
UC physicians are using a new technique that involves injecting patients with millions of tiny radioactive glass beads to control advanced, inoperable liver cancer.
October 12, 2006
UC physicians are using a new technique that involves injecting patients with millions of tiny radioactive glass beads to control advanced, inoperable liver cancer.
October 14, 2006
Ultrasound tests performed in a doctor s office may be more sensitive in detecting recurrence of the two most common types of thyroid cancer than the standard whole-body radioiodine scans and serum thyroglobulin tests, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC).
October 16, 2006
An estimated 20 million Americans suffer from diabetes and 6 million of them don't even know it. Some of those who are unaware they have diabetes can be screened for it at a health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26.
October 17, 2006
The majority of Americans who turn their clocks back one hour on Oct. 29 may think they re gaining an hour of sleep. But UC sleep expert Victoria Surdulescu, MD, says this isn t really the case.
October 17, 2006
The University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center has received a $2.5 million gift from the Dr. Stanley and Mickey Kaplan Foundation to support the department of psychiatry. A $2 million portion of the gift will establish the Dr. Stanley and Mickey Kaplan Endowed Chair in Psychiatry.
October 18, 2006
New research from the University of Cincinnati suggests that the widely abused club drug ecstasy, or MDMA, can increase the survival of dopamine cells in the brain during fetal development.
October 19, 2006
The annual report of invention disclosures at the University of Cincinnati, and deals made with industry to develop them, shows a significant increase in ideas that may one day be brought to market, according to the head of UC s Intellectual Property Office.
October 24, 2006
Most people will visit an emergency department at some point in their lives, as a patient or in support of one. Although you can t anticipate an emergency, there are some things that are helpful to know when you do visit an emergency department.
October 24, 2006
UC environmental health experts are trying to determine the extent of metal exposure in a community chronically exposed to manganese, lead and chromium. This information will be used to justify larger studies to determine the effects of these trace metals on human health.
October 25, 2006
Paul Keck, MD, has been named president and chief executive officer of the Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope