Bioscience Connecticut ‘An Opportunity to Do Great Things’
Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, June 6, 2012
Dr. Frank Torti, executive vice president for health affairs and medical school dean, discusses his vision for the UConn Health Center and the promise of Bioscience Connecticut on the WTIC NewsTalk 1080 morning show.
Gearing Up to Pedal Coast to Coast for a Cure
Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080 and 96.5 TIC-FM, June 3, 2012
First-year medical students Melina Benson and Sean Burn will spend the summer bicycling across the country to raise money for Lea’s Foundation for Leukemia Research, a philanthropic supporter of the UConn Health Center. They talk about their upcoming trip with WTIC’s Sam Gingerella on “Face Connecticut.”
Link Between Night Shift and Breast Cancer
Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, May 30, 2012
A Danish study published this week in the online edition of “Occupational and Environmental Medicine” finds women who work the night shift more than twice a week might be increasing their breast cancer risk. UConn Health Center cancer epidemiologist Richard Stevens, whose research on the possible connection between light at night and cancer goes back more than 20 years, discusses the study on the WTIC NewsTalk 1080 morning show.
Hazards of Hypertension
Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, May 23, 2012
A day after being sworn in as president of the American Society of Hypertension, Dr. William White, chief of the Division of Hypertension in the Calhoun Cardiology Center, discusses the hazards of hypertension on the WTIC NewsTalk 1080 morning show.
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