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Your chances of a migraine increase with hotter temperatures

June 21, 2024

Vincent Martin, MD, professor in the UC College of Medicine, spoke with Cincinnati's Fox 19 about his latest research on migraines and hotter temperatures. His findings were reported by CBS News and the Miami Herald and internationally in publications such as Venezuela’s Noticias Venevision and Indonesia’s Suara Merdeka.

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UC COVID-19 studies awarded $425K

April 15, 2020

Understanding that time was of the essence in combating this highly infectious disease, UC and its College of Medicine’s Office of Research conducted a rapid review and distribution of $425,000 in novel pilot grants to researchers, focusing on eradicating the disease.

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Before the OR, students get more anatomy practice

March 17, 2021

Charles Prestigiacomo, MD, created the Advanced Anatomy of the Head and Neck elective, offered to fourth-year students at the UC College of Medicine who are getting ready to match in surgical residencies and begin performing procedures on patients. He and colleagues are seeing how this class is better preparing students to begin their careers with a little more “real-life” practice.

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Combating ‘chemobrain’ with music

August 17, 2020

UC researchers from the College of Medicine and DAAP are working together to see how a music app may help patients who experience "chemobrain."

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A potential new treatment for brain tumors

September 23, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Pankaj Desai, PhD, has received a $1.19 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to continue research into the use of a drug called letrozole to treat glioblastomas, the most deadly form of brain tumors.

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Breaching the blood-brain barrier to treat tumors

May 7, 2021

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, have found that using ultrasound combined with RNA-loaded nanoparticles could help infiltrate the blood-brain barrier and deliver targeted, more effective treatment to brain tumors, while eliminating uncomfortable side effects.

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Improving treatment for deadly brain tumors

May 5, 2023

The University of Cincinnati's Soma Sengupta was a co-first author on research published in Cell Reports Medicine New that found that a cancer stem cell test can accurately decide more effective treatments and lead to increased survival for patients with glioblastoma, a deadly brain tumor.