February 9, 2021
Tesfaye Mersha, a geneticist at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, says including African populations in genetics research is paving the way for a better understanding of the links between disease and genes in everyone, everywhere, because Africa holds more genomic diversity than any other continent.
March 29, 2021
Alternatives to direct eye injections are the focus of a new study to find alternatives for treating eye diseases.
June 15, 2020
Tamara Ward, a specialist in oncology nutrition at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, discusses nutrition and the immune system in this USA Today article.
June 2, 2020
CNN covers UC research that shows some patients with COVID-19 experience confusion and stroke.
August 10, 2020
UC's Jeffrey Strawn was involved in developing an app to help patients combat anxiety related to COVID-19.
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.
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.
August 9, 2021
Brian Grawe, MD, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery , and Bret Betz, MD, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, both at the University of Cincinnati, spoke with WVXU's Cincinnati Edition about athletes facing injuries because of a lack of physical conditioning because of COVID-19 restrictions. The sports medicine experts also addressed mental health and its role in healthy sports competition.