April 13, 2021

Mary Beth Genter, PhD, a professor in the UC College of Medicine, provided her expertise for a story with Healthline on choosing hand sanitizers. She advised against using brands of hand sanitizer that contain denatured alcohol.

April 29, 2021

Prevention magazine cited a research study from the University of Cincinnati looking at ergonomics and working from home. The researchers sent an email survey last year to 4,500 faculty and staff after the coronavirus pandemic prompted UC to ask workers to continue operations from home when possible. The survey had 843 people complete it and showed some trends and offered a glimpse into what many who work from home were encountering.

June 1, 2021

Goodnet, an online publication, discussed some common mistakes individuals make when working from home office spaces. Kermit Davis, PhD, a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine professor, offered a few tips about your chair, desk and placement of your laptop in your home office space.

March 31, 2021

Research from Lynne Haber, PhD, a toxicologist in the UC College of Medicine, uses patient data from multiple locations and mathematical models to estimate an “eliciting dose” — or the amount of peanut protein that will cause or elicit an allergic reaction in a certain percentage of peanut sensitive patients. The study was published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and has been featured in media reports.

March 9, 2021

Kermit Davis, PhD, professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, explains to Forbes magazine how ergonomics is an important part of employee wellness. This often gets overlooked when employees are working from home without much guidance in making their workspaces healthy productive areas.

July 30, 2020

Kermit Davis, PhD, expert in office ergonomics, conducted an ergonomic assessment of employees at the University of Cincinnati sending out an email survey to 4,500 faculty and staff after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the university to join many other employers across the nation in sending workers home to continue operations.

November 9, 2020

Dr. Katie Burns, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, discusses her battle with endometriosis, up close and personal and inside the lab. She is seeking a better treatment and hopefully a cure to a condition that affects one in 10 women.

June 25, 2021

A journalist for Ohio Capital Journal quoted Susan Pinney, PhD, professor in the UC Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, about the dangers of PFAS chemicals. They have been linked to health problems including cancer, kidney damage, thyroid difficulties and changes in reproductive hormones that disrupt puberty for girls.

December 12, 2020

A team of researchers at UC conducted an ergonomic assessment of employees at the university by sending an email survey earlier this year to 4,500 faculty and staff after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the university to ask workers to continue operations from home when possible. The survey had 843 people complete it and showed some trends and offered a glimpse into what many who work from home were encountering. Susan Kotowski, PhD, a UC associate professor of allied health sciences, was part of a team of researchers conducting the survey. She spoke to Fast Company for a story about ergonomics in makeshift home offices.

August 4, 2021

UC researchers launched a new study looking treating a common brain problem that results after therapy for cancer.