September 7, 2022

The new booster vaccines to protect against severe COVID-19 have been authorized for use, and they come with the bonus of extra protection against the omicron variants that have been hovering and infecting people for months. Cincinnati.com checked with local experts on COVID-19 boosters, including Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the UC College of Medicine.

September 14, 2022

The Ohio Department of Health recently announced COVID-19 boosters with the new formulation to target Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are now available statewide. The Pfizer booster is available to Ohioans 12-years-old and older and the Moderna vaccine is available to those 18 years and up. Doctors are urging Ohioans to get those vaccines now. One of those Ohio doctors is Anna Goroncy, MD, of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the UC College of Medicine.

September 27, 2022

UC's Ann Brown, MD, and breast cancer survivor Michele Young talked with WLWT about House Bill 371, a new law that requires insurance companies to cover additional screenings for individuals who are at high risk for breast cancer or have dense breast tissue, going into effect.

October 14, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD, joined the Five to Thrive Live podcast to discuss "Humanizing Brain Tumors."

October 5, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Rifat Wahab, DO, joined WPFW's What's at Stake radio show and podcast to discuss Breast Cancer Awareness Month and racial disparities in breast cancer.

October 13, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Jeffrey Strawn, MD, is senior author of a new editorial in JAMA discussing new recommendations that children and adolescents ages 8 to 18 should be screened for anxiety disorders.

October 27, 2022

Inspired by her own experience of going through physical therapy, a University of Cincinnati alumna is developing an app to make therapy fun for children, Local 12 reported.

October 12, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Pooja Khatri joined NBC News' Meet the Press Now to discuss stroke recovery in light of Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman campaigning while recovering from a stroke.

August 25, 2023

Among nearly 10 million American infants born between 2016 and 2018, breastfed babies were 33% less likely to die during the post-perinatal period (day 7-364) than infants who were not breastfed, reports a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier. The Guardian posted an article on the research, quoting co-investigators Jane Ware, MD, and Ardythe Morrow, MD, both of the Department of Pediatrics in the UC College of Medicine.

September 18, 2023

Patient Reverend Michael Bailey and University of Cincinnati Cancer Center member Nilesh Patil spoke with WCPO about the importance of screening during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.