June 27, 2024
The University of Cincinnati's John Winhusen and Caroline Freiermuth discussed the evidence-based practices implemented during the HEALing Communities Study to fight the opioid epidemic with Spectrum News.
September 28, 2021
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is opening what it calls a “heart bank” to collect tissue samples that can be used by researchers. Those samples will be stored in a biorepository to provide a potentially valuable resource to help researchers find answers to scientific questions.
January 25, 2022
Women who receive a kidney transplant have low rates of contraceptive use according to new research from the University of Cincinnati. The study, published in the Journal of Nephrology, finds an overall contraceptive use rate of 9.5% among women with kidney transplants in the United States.
February 24, 2022
Research from UC is examining a protein that plays a key role in heart failure. The study is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for just over $2 million dollars for four years and is a second renewal of a previous grant given to Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease in the Department of Internal Medicine at the UC College of Medicine.
February 17, 2022
New UC research discovered a unique class of medications that act as blood thinners by inhibiting an enzyme in the genes of tick saliva. The research focused on novel direct thrombin inhibitors (DTI) from tick salivary transcriptomes, or messenger RNA molecules expressed by an organism. The result is the development of new anticoagulant medications that can be used to treat patients with a variety of coronary issues, including heart attacks. The study was published in Nature Communication.
November 2, 2022
A collaborative research team at the University of Cincinnati has received a $3.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to examine how current HIV medications are affected by alcohol use alone or in combination with fentanyl.
November 17, 2022
According to a report in early 2022 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 37 million people in the United States have diabetes, which is more than 11% of the population. Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2017 based on the death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death. A newly launched University of Cincinnati partnership is aiming to put a dent in those numbers in Greater Cincinnati.
August 10, 2022
University of Cincinnati researchers Jason Gardner and Matthew Robson are studying whether targeting an inflammation pathway that affects burns and traumatic brain injuries can be an effective treatment for both conditions.
September 6, 2022
Benjamin Kinnear, MD, has been selected as a Visiting Scholar by the American Board of Medical Specialties.
September 27, 2022
Cincinnati.com interviewed some local experts about the upcoming flu season, including Jennifer Forrester, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine.