February 16, 2024
The number of pregnant women with syphilis is increasing in Ohio, impacting mothers and children. Spectrum News produced a story interviewing Meredith Pensak, MD and Carl Fichtenbaum, MD of the UC College of Medicine
February 28, 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could soon change its isolation guidance for people who have tested positive for COVID, according to recent media reports. The agency is considering new guidelines where workers and school-aged children would not be required to isolate before returning to school or work if they have been fever-free for at least 24 hours without medication and if their symptoms are mild or resolving. WVXU interviewed Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine to get his insight.
February 28, 2024
What if you'd been treated for years for a condition, only to find out that you'd long ago been misdiagnosed? That's what's happening to a sizable number of Americans who are taking allergy meds (to little effect) when in fact they have chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), a new UC study contends. US News and World Report published a report on the research, interviewing the lead author Ahmad Sedaghat of the UC College of Medicine.
February 27, 2024
A recent outbreak of lead poisoning from cinnamon in applesauce has drawn attention to the toxic effect the heavy metal can have on children. The cinnamon in the applesauce was believed to have been intentionally contaminated, possibly to add to its value as a commodity sold by weight. The New York Times published an article on the outbreak, quoting Kim Dietrich, PhD, of the Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences at the UC College of Medicine.
June 28, 2024
WVXU and the Cincinnati Business Courier highlighted a new collaboration between the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, UC Health GE HealthCare, JobsOhio, REDI Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s to create an MRI Research and Development Center of Excellence located on UC’s medical campus.
November 30, 2021
A poster by a College of Medicine research team has been selected as the top clinical research poster in the cerebrovascular section at the recent Congress of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting in Austin, Texas.
January 26, 2021
UC offers a new course titled 'Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic' to undergraduates this spring. Lectures from 13 health and social well-being experts from UC, Cincinnati Children's and UC Health will be made available throughout the course.
March 24, 2021
Jaasiel Chapman of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine was widely quoted in an article on the reluctance of black women to take pre-exposure prophylaxis, also known as PrEP, the preventative medication used to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
May 20, 2020
New York Times story touches on polio vaccine history related to UC's Albert Sabin
April 4, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is updating its recommendations to allow certain immunocompromised individuals and people over 50 to be eligible for another COVID-19 booster if four months have passed since their first. Cincinnati.com talked to several local experts for the story, including Louito Edje, MD, associate dean for graduate medical education at the UC College of Medicine.