2009 Headlines
December 2009
December 28, 2009
Nighttime Blood Pressure Can Predict Cardiovascular Risk
December 28, 2009
A Rewarding Approach to Smoking Cessation
December 28, 2009
Doctor Warns of Deaths Around Holidays
December 17, 2009
H1N1 Vaccine: More Doses Are In
December 15, 2009
Stem Cell Face Off
December 14, 2009
Holiday Makeovers
December 13, 2009
Photographer Records Early Moments
December 11, 2009
These Med Students, All Sheehan Grads, Are in a Class of Their Own
December 11, 2009
Easing Up on Stress During the Holidays
December 9, 2009
State Was Wise to Fund Cell Research
December 8, 2009
Holiday Blues
December 8, 2009
Men Taking ADT at Higher Risk for Heart Disease, Diabetes Regardless of Age
December 5, 2009
Stem Cell Research Shows Promise in State
December 4, 2009
Six Ways to Make Working the Night Shift Less Hazardous to Your Health
December 1, 2009
Changing Sleep "Hygiene" Can Reduce Insomnia
December 1, 2009
Study: Down Syndrome Births Up
November 2009
November 29, 2009
Sports Injury Prevention
November 27, 2009
More on Mammograms
November 26, 2009
Physicians Investigate Apparent Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Hypertension
November 20, 2009
Probiotics: The ‘Good’ Bacteria
November 18, 2009
Sleep: What Happens When We Go to Bed?
November 17, 2009
Call for Cancer Screening Starting at Age 50 Criticized
November 17, 2009
Many Doctors to Stay Course on Breast Exams for Now
November 16, 2009
Health Center Offers Program on Immune System
November 16, 2009
Despite Recommendations, Many Opt Out of Swine Flu Vaccine
November 15, 2009
'Til Death Do We Save: There Are Many Ways
to Reduce Funeral Expenses
November 13, 2009
New Explanation for Nature's Hardiest Life Form
November 12, 2009
Primary Care's Image Problem
November 10, 2009
Smoking’s Ills Go Beyond Heart, Lungs
November 6, 2009
Old Foe Could Boost New UConn Hospital
November 5, 2009
Doctor Shortage Reaching Critical Level
October 2009
October 30, 2009
UConn Health Center Gets $19 Million in Stimulus Funds
October 27, 2009
Physician Interrupted Career to Start Family
October 26, 2009
West Indian Foundation Honors UConn's Dr. Marja Hurley
October 22, 2009
Girls: Avoiding Sports Injuries
October 21, 2009
Getting Braces Young
October 20, 2009
Cancer Society, in Shift, Has Concerns on Screenings
October 19, 2009
Osteoporosis Day: Rating Your Risk
October 15, 2009
The Incidence (and Complications) of Twins
October 13, 2009
Internet Addiction
October 13, 2009
Governor Rell: Stimulus-funded Energy Efficiency Work Begins with Two UConn Health Center Projects
October 11, 2009
Breast Cancer and Beyond
October 11, 2009
National Survey Ranks Health Center’s ICU Among the Best
October 11, 2009
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
October 7, 2009
Online Depression Screening Effective
October 6, 2009
Folic Acid Before Conception Might Not Be Just for Mom
October 6, 2009
UConn Health Center Studying Vitamin D Deficiency, Hypertension Link
October 6, 2009
Support UConn, Hartford Hospital Partnership
October 2, 2009
State Hospitals Making Preparations for Possible Swine Flu Pandemic
September 2009
September 28, 2009
Supporters Say UConn-Hartford Hospital Partnership Would Elevate Clinical Research
September 2009
Women’s Cancer Prevention: Information Can Empower
September 16, 2009
Study: Watch and Wait May Be Best Option for Prostate Cancer
September 13, 2009
Screening Raises Ovarian Cancer Survival Rates
September 11, 2009
Connecticut: Last in Job Growth – and No Plans to Change
September 11, 2009
New Britain, UConn Get FEMA Funds
September 10, 2009
Hartford Medical Society Historical Library Grand Opening
September 10, 2009
Does Infection Boost Prostate Cancer Risk?
September 8, 2009
UConn Makes Health Care Accessible to Migrant Farm Workers
August 2009
August 28, 2009
Returning to a Back-to-school Sleep Schedule
August 27, 2009
The World This Week: Miss Conception
August 25, 2009
New Haven Schools Try to Stop Swine
August 21, 2009
State Needs Recovery Plan to Stem Job Losses
August 18, 2009
Back-to-School Vaccinations
August 14, 2009
Weight Lifting May Benefit Breast Cancer Survivors More Than
Previously Thought
August 12, 2009
New Insights into Limb Formation
August 6, 2009
The Psychology of Going Away to School
August 5, 2009
Obama Honors UConn Dean
August 3, 2009
Garlic for a Healthy Heart? Go Fresh, Health Center Study Says
July 2009
July 30, 2009
UConn’s New Specialist Just What the Doctor Ordered
July 28, 2009
Couple Donates $3.8 Million to Medical Center
July 27, 2009
Could an Apology Make a Difference?
July 26, 2009
Dr. Cato Laurencin a Can't Miss Prospect
July 23, 2009
Early Arthritis in the Hip
July 21, 2009
Mending Calhoun Is Back on the Bike
July 21, 2009
Stem Cells: UConn Professor May Improve Heart Attack Recovery
July 19, 2009
Experts: Swine Flu Is Waning, Will Return in the Fall
July 13, 2009
Childhood Obesity
July 5, 2009
Advances in Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome Raises Ethical Questions
July 2, 2009
UConn Tries to Save Ailing Health Center
July 2, 2009
Our Cells Respond to Human Touch
June 2009
June 2009
New Treatments Available for Painful Varicose Veins
June 26, 2009
NICU Baby Grows Up to Become NICU Nurse
June 25, 2009
Health Suffers in Recession; Preventive Care Often Cut First
June 24, 2009
Update on the UConn Health Center/Hartford Hospital Proposal
June 17, 2009
Choosing Single Motherhood
June 17, 2009
Cancer Activist Sounds Alarm for Early Testing for Genetic Marker
June 14, 2009
Health Center Merger Would Benefit Economy, Medicine
June 14, 2009
Coast to Coast for a Cure 2009
June 13, 2009
Marriage and Reality TV
June 10, 2009
Chemical Castration
Needed to Fight Prostate Cancer, Study Says
June 9, 2009
Cancer's Odd Link to Artificial Light at Night
June 4, 2009
New Hospital Proposal Still in Limbo
May 2009
May 29, 2009
Starting a Family After Cancer
May 28, 2009
Father-Son Team Bring Dental Skills to Belize
May 27, 2009
New Law for Screening Cystic Fibrosis
May 21, 2009
A Woodbury Fundraiser Has an Arnaz as Headliner
May 19, 2009
Wesleyan Killing Puts New Focus on Crime of Stalking
May 13, 2009
In Search of a Tan for Prom, Youths Dismiss Risks
May 11, 2009
Treating, Preventing and Living with Osteoporosis
May 10, 2009
H1N1 Update
May 8, 2009
Drinking While Down May
Signal Teen Suicide Risk
May 6, 2009
West Simsbury's Gould Honored
by UConn Health Center
May 3, 2009
Remembering the Lessons of 1918's Spanish Flu Outbreak
May 1, 2009
Two Schools Reopen, But State Epidemiologist Warns of Many Swine Flu Cases
April 2009
April 30, 2009
In Connecticut, a 3rd Probable Case of Swine Flu
April 28, 2009
Experts Say Panic Over Swine Flu Is Premature
April 28, 2009
Bill Would Limit 'Gifts' to Doctors
April 27, 2009
Swine Flu Virus Is a Mutation
April 17, 2009
Connecticut Lawmakers Try
to Keep Hospital Merger Idea Alive
April 17, 2009
UConn Hospital Plan Demands Reconsideration
April 13, 2009
William Raveis-American Cancer Society Program Dedicated
April 10, 2009
State Needs University Hospital
April 5, 2009
Keeping Academic Hospital Crucial
April 3, 2009
BASF to Market Product to Cut Cavities
April 2, 2009
UConn Awarded $5.4M
in Stem Cell Grants
April 2, 2009
State Earmarks $100 Million
to Fund Stem Cell Research
April 1, 2009
Hypertensive Smoking Cessation Research
March 2009
March 26, 2009
Octomom Case Raises Ethical Questions
March 23, 2009
Cancer Society Funds $10 Million
in Research
March 22, 2009
State Must Create Good Jobs to Stop Its Decline. Here’s How
March 20, 2009
Questions About PSA Screenings
March 19, 2009
For Some Patients, Partial Knee Replacement Is Best Option
March 18, 2009
State Holds Edge on Stem Cell Work
March 17, 2009
Fertility Experts Offer Hope
March 17, 2009
Fear of Competition No Reason to Block Dempsey Plans
March 16, 2009
Linking Lyme Disease to Violence Is Premature, Specialist Says
March 15, 2009
How to Pay for New UConn Health Center Hospital?
March 13, 2009
Local Group Passes $1 Million Milestone
March 11, 2009
Update on Stem Cell Research
March 8, 2009
March Is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
March 5, 2009
UConn Study Backs Proposal for New Hospital
March 3, 2009
$475 Million
for a New Hospital? Yes, UConn
February 2009
February 27, 2009
Investing in UConn Health Center Benefits State
February 25, 2009
Dentist's Heart Opens Wide
for Less Fortunate
February 23, 2009
Heart Failure
February 23, 2009
Honoring a Biomedical Legacy
February 23, 2009
Experts Advise a Wait-and-See Approach on Treating Low-grade Prostate Cancer
February 22, 2009
Alliance With Hartford Hospital Will Preserve Crucial Academic and Clinical Resource
February 20, 2009
President: Help Now or Risk Loss of Hospital
February 20, 2009
Stem Cell Central
February 18, 2009
What a Cure for the Common Cold Could Mean
February 17, 2009
The Right Plan at the Right Time
February 17, 2009
Stem Cell Research Advances in State
February 17, 2009
Maybe It's Better to Stay in the Dark
February 15, 2009
Dental Implants at the UConn Health Center
February 11, 2009
Octuplet Mom Sends Misleading Message About Infertility Treatment
February 7, 2009
Medical School Dean Wins High Honor
February 4, 2009
Woman with Octuplets Faces Ethical Question
February 3, 2009
UConn Health Center Hartford Hospital Merger May Require State Funding
February 2, 2009
Go Red for Women
February 1, 2009
Our View: State at Forefront of Research
January 2009
January 30, 2009
Group Names State's Women of Innovation in Business, Research and Education
January 29, 2009
UConn's New Stem Cell Lines Boost Health Research in State
January 29, 2009
UConn Stem Cell Research Opens Doors
January 28, 2009
Stem Cell Research Breakthrough in CT
January 28, 2009
Stem Cell Researchers Hoping for Federal Funding
January 23, 2009
Darkness, Melatonin May Stall Breast and Prostate Cancers
January 22, 2009
Study Substantiates Advantages to Wrist Angioplasty
January 22, 2009
Doty Undergoes Surgery
January 22, 2009
State Has Heart for Waterbury Center
January 21, 2009
Reducing Your Risk for Breast Cancer
January/February, 2009
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
January 19, 2009
Council Names Innovation Finalists
January 19, 2009
Dempsey Hospital Head Retiring Post
January 18, 2009
Growing Scarcity of Primary Care Docs
January 16, 2009
New Enzyme Research Study Findings Reported from University of Connecticut
January 11, 2009
Students Claim Lack of Sleep Hurts Performance
January 2009
UNL Team's Discovery Expands Understanding of Genetic Code
January 8, 2009
Health Centers Pioneer $951K Colonoscopy Study
January 5, 2009
Apple's Steve Jobs: "Hormone Imbalance" Has Caused Health Problems
January 5, 2009
How Old Is Too Old to Drive?
January 5, 2009
Artificial Turf Studied for Health, Environmental Risks
January 3, 2009
High Mercury Levels Tied to Sushi