October 5, 2006
UC environmental health researchers will use 15-foot-tall puppets to educate nearly 500 young children and their families about air pollution at the 5th Annual Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air Pollution Study family picnic.
October 6, 2006
Everyone knows that sports cause injuries, but what about skin problems? There are plenty of them, according to UC dermatologist Brian Adams, MD, who has just published a book on the subject.
October 9, 2006
Seven students in the UC's distance learning bachelor of science in health information management program have been awarded FORE Scholarships by the American Health Information Management Association.
October 9, 2006
Infants whose parents have allergies that produce symptoms like wheezing, asthma, hay fever or hives risk developing allergic sensitization much earlier in life than previously reported, according to a study by Cincinnati researchers.
October 9, 2006
More than two million American men have osteoporosis, or weakening of the bones, but very few of them are aware of this major health problem.
October 10, 2006
More than two million American men have osteoporosis, or weakening of the bones, but very few of them are aware of this major health problem.
October 11, 2006
UC physiologist Jay Hove, PhD, has been awarded a four-year, $1.53 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health to create a tool, a laser-illuminated 4-D camera, that he hopes will provide scientists with a better way to study cell and fluid movement in three dimensions plus the fourth D real time.
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.