Katie is the director of Media Relations + Content within the Marketing + Communications department. She oversees media outreach for the division and assists with other media relations efforts across campuses and units.
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March 12, 2021
For the first time, a visual correlation has been found between the severity of COVID-19 in the lungs using CT scans and the severity of effects on patient’s brains, using MRI scans, according to a new UC study.
March 9, 2021
University of Cincinnati researchers have discovered that cooperation between two key genes drive cancer growth, spread and treatment resistance in one particularly aggressive type of breast cancer. The good news is, though, with this knowledge, they can continue to aim their targeted treatments at these genes, singularly and together, to stop breast cancer in its tracks.
March 8, 2021
Local 12 reports on a new study that could give pregnant women with addiction a new tool to deliver a healthy baby. Christine Wilder, MD, is interviewed.
March 2, 2021
UC's Mary Mahoney, MD, discusses how the COVID-19 vaccine could impact readings from mammograms.
February 24, 2021
Climbing the ranks in the research field isn’t easy. Doing it with a physical disability is even more difficult. But Christina Wicker is doing just that at the University of Cincinnati.
February 19, 2021
This week, more than 130 hospitals, research foundations, fundraising organizations and patient advocacy groups asked the Biden administration to put cancer patients first in the next stage of the rollout. The letter, which was signed by leaders at the UC Cancer Center, says research in the past year shows that COVID-19 patients with cancer have twice the death rate than those without cancer.
February 17, 2021
Millions of Americans are living without power in their homes during frigid temperatures this week. Safety and security comprise the second of five facets of wellness design, and being secure in your living space is essential to your well-being. A UC expert weighs in on ways to cope.
February 17, 2021
A researcher at the University of Cincinnati is studying whether electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can be helpful in treating certain psychiatric conditions, like depression.
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.
February 8, 2021
University of Cincinnati researchers have shown that completely halting a cell recycling process in a very aggressive form of breast cancer may improve outcomes for patients one day.