January 8, 2021
Brett Kissela, MD, senior associate dean for clinical research at the UC College of Medicine and chief of research services at UC Health, learned he received the placebo in the Moderna vaccine clinical trial. He then received the real vaccine to show that he believes in the science.
January 6, 2021
WVXU reporter Michael Monks spoke to UC faculty members, Dustin Calhoun, MD, and Louito Edje, MD, for a Cincinnati Edition story discussing the process for COVID-19 vaccination in Cincinnati and hesitancy that some residents have in receiving that protective measure. Ohio residents age 65 and older, school employees and people with medical conditions that put them at high-risk will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in about two weeks.
January 20, 2021
UC biologist Bruce Jayne and his collaborators at Colorado State University tell Scientific American about their new discovery of a novel way that snakes can climb called lasso locomotion.
January 15, 2021
Maybe everything about identical twins isn't so identical, according to a new research study. The findings suggest that mutations may be present at birth in one twin, but not the other. University of Cincinnati researcher Anil Menon, PhD, weighed in on this study during an interview with Reuters Health.
January 14, 2021
Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the UC College of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases was quoted as a source in a Medscape article on a study showing the effectiveness of arthritis drugs in treating severe COVID-19 cases.
January 19, 2021
Michael Thomas, MD, professor and chair of the UC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and UC Health physician, discusses obstacles Black and Latinx couples may face in seeking fertility treatment when trying to conceive.
January 20, 2021
UC assistant professor Diego Cuadros tells Undark coronavirus could linger in rural parts of the United States where vaccinations are more difficult to dispense.
January 14, 2021
UC faculty members Jeffrey Blevins and Brian Calfano give their opinions on whether Google, Apple, Amazon acted appropriately in banning the social media app Parler
January 15, 2021
University of Cincinnati physics professor Matthew Bayliss co-authored a study identifying a galaxy that formed in the early universe.
January 21, 2021
UC research, published in JAMA Oncology, shows that chemotherapy before surgery for some pancreatic cancer patients may not improve survival rates.