August 18, 2022
Ahmad Sedaghat, MD, PhD, associate professor and director of the Division of Rhinology, Allergy and Anterior Skull Base Surgery in the UC College of Medicine and a UC Health physician was interviewed by WVXU about the upcoming fall ragweed season.
July 27, 2022
The University of Cincinnati's Erica Birkley, PhD, was featured by WLWT News to discuss the psychological impact of officer-involved shootings on officers and the treatment methods to clear an officer back to active duty.
August 18, 2022
Design World featured the University of Cincinnati's Frank Rybicki in an article about different ways CAD and 3-D printing have helped advance medical care.
August 29, 2022
The World Health Organization announced recently that breakthrough infections have been reported in people who had been vaccinated against monkeypox. Healthline reported there is limited data available on the efficacy of the JYNNEOS shot, so it will take time to understand how effective it is at preventing infection. Data from the 1980s has shown that the vaccine was at least 85% effective, however, some health experts expect that number to change in the current outbreak. One of the experts cited in the Healthline story was Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine.
August 30, 2022
The Guardian featured University of Cincinnati researcher Erica Birkley in an article on the effect of Americans halting COVID precautions on vulnerable populations.
January 9, 2023
The University of Cincinnati's Carla F. Justiniano, MD, joined 55KRC's Simply Medicine to discuss colon cancer screening and prevention following the death of actor Kirstie Alley.
December 6, 2022
Hospital emergency departments in the Cincinnati-area are seeing a surge in patients who have flu symptoms and complications, pushing hospitals be near or at capacity, partially because flu is raging in the region. Hospitalizations for flu locally rose 107% last week. Cincinnati.com asked several local healthcare experts about what people should do as flu cases surge. One of those was Jennifer Forrester, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the UC College of Medicine.
December 2, 2022
Hospitals in the Cincinnati area are dealing with what some are calling a 'tripledemic' of RSV, COVID-19 and the flu. WLWT reported that according to the Health Collaborative, COVID-19 hospitalizations across Ohio counties in greater Cincinnati are at 176 patients. That's 41 more than Friday. About 180 people are hospitalized with the flu. It's a major spike from the week before. One of the experts cited by WLWT is Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine.
March 2, 2023
The Associated Press interviewed Susan Pinney, PhD, of the University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health and Public Sciences about the expectation that the EPA to propose restrictions on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable.
February 27, 2023
The University of Cincinnati's Pooja Khatri joined Local 12's What's Happening in Health to discuss advancements in stroke research.