February 21, 2022

In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) set opioid-prescribing guidelines for physicians. The idea was to offer doctors the best ways to protect people from an over-prescription of pain pills which had fueled the misuse of opioids and amplified cascading overdose deaths in the United States. While the goal was to protect patients, the impact was not all positive. In an article published by Cincinnati.com, Christine Wilder, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the UC College of Medicine and the director of the UC Health Addiction Sciences, was one of the experts cited.

February 22, 2022

Health experts in the United States are monitoring an increase in cases of bird flu in several states, including Indiana, Kentucky and Virginia. In January, the United States Department of Agriculture detected the first U.S. bird flu case after a hunted wild bird tested positive for the virus in Colleton County, South Carolina. Experts reported that it was the H5N1 strain, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) — the same strain responsible for fatal poultry outbreaks across Europe and Asia in late 2021. In a story on the increase in bird flu published by Healthline, Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine was one of the experts cited.

November 7, 2022

MSN India highlighted recent research led by the University of Cincinnati's Trisha Wise-Draper about how immunotherapy and immunosuppression affects COVID-19 severity.

November 7, 2022

Ann Romaker, MD, of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the UC College of Medicine was interviewed by Fox19 about the end of daylight saving time this past weekend.

May 2, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Alice Tang was featured in a Healio article discussing recently published research that administering an immunotherapy drug prior to surgery did not increase risks for patients with advanced oral cavity cancer.

April 26, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Hyacinth I. Hyacinth was featured in a Spectrum News story about his research into biological factors that contribute to racial health disparities in patients with dementia.

May 9, 2022

Shailendra Patel, MD, PhD, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the UC College of Medicine was quoted in a Healthline article on Eli Lilly's experimental weight-loss drug.

May 10, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Shana Feibel gave tips to LifeHacker on how to parent an empath, someone who feels other people's feelings as if they are their own.

May 11, 2022

The University of Cincinnati's Shana Feibel was featured in a Parade article about the benefits of fidget toys to cope with anxiety and depression.

April 20, 2022

Consumer Affairs and Healthing Canada recently featured research from the University of Cincinnati showing patients seeking treatment for depression who have lower income and education and those who are members of minority populations tend to have worse treatment outcomes even when receiving equal access to treatment.