January 25, 2005

A nationwide clinical trial will test the efficacy of a blood substitute called Polyheme.

January 26, 2005

The "votes" have been tallied. Each time you read a UC news story during the last year, you added to the total. Here, based on page views during 2004, are the most popular UC news items for 2004.

January 28, 2005

UC faculty member Elwood V. Jensen, PhD, will be recognized for his life-saving research at the Jan. 29 men s basketball game.

January 31, 2005

UC's otolaryngology department, a U.S. News & World Report top 20 department 10 times since 1993, has named long-time faculty member Myles Pensak, MD, as the new chair.

February 2, 2005

Robert Cohen, MD, answered the 25,000th question on NetWellness, a consumer health information Web site serving Internet users for nearly 10 years.

February 2, 2005

Research presented today at the International Stroke Conference in New Orleans found gene variations were significantly greater in those who had experienced ischemic stroke when compared with the controls.

February 8, 2005

UC|21 Implementation Team 2 is looking at interdisciplinary collaboration, streamlined procedures and closer ties to industry to grow UC's research excellence.

February 9, 2005

UC's Department of Radiology houses the only 64-slice CT scanner in town.

February 13, 2005

UC researchers found that $56 billion in U.S. heath-care expenditures in 2000 were linked to excess body weight a 12 percent increase from 1998.

February 14, 2005

Research on the transport of cadmium throughout the body may one day lead to the prevention of cadmium toxicity in humans.