Health Center in the News – April 2013

Health Center experts are interviewed about laughter as medicine; blood pressure and brain decline; the future of stem cells; helping families access mental health treatment; and more.

Health Center in the News

Health Center in the News

Bladder Cancer Awareness

WTIC NewsTalk 1080 and 96.5 TIC-FM, April 14, 2013

Dr. Jessica Clement and John V., a bladder cancer survivor, discuss the disease, treatments, family support, and the UConn Health Center’s comprehensive bladder cancer program.

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For Better Mental Health Coverage, Help with the Paperwork

Connecticut Mirror, April 9, 2013

The Connecticut Insurance Department is working with psychiatrists at the UConn Health Center to develop a plain-language guide for consumers and behavioral health providers to make it clear what they’ll need to submit to get insurance coverage.

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The Enormous Cost of Dementia Care

WTIC 1080 News, April 4, 2013

Dr. Patrick Coll from the UConn Center on Aging comments on a recent study that finds the most expensive American health care problem to treat is dementia.

Hear three reports from WTIC’s John Silva >


UConn Researchers Look at Blood Pressure Link to Brain Decline

Hartford Courant, April 4, 2013

A college professor recently told Dr. William White at the University of Connecticut Health Center that he was often forgetting things. “He said ‘I get so worried about this — I think I’m getting Alzheimer’s,'” said White, professor of hypertension and clinical pharmacology at the UConn School of Medicine. “But it wasn’t Alzheimer’s.”

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Dempsey Hospital Makes Progress Reducing Double CT Scans

Connecticut Health I-team, April 4, 2013

UConn’s John Dempsey Hospital has drastically reduced the frequency of “combination” CT scans of patients’ chests and abdomens, as federal regulators have clamped down on the practice, which carries a risk of excess radiation.

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The Future of Stem Cells

WNPR, The Colin McEnroe Show, April 1, 2013

Caroline Dealy, associate professor, University of Connecticut Health Center and the Co-Founder and CEO of Chondrogenics, talks about her research into osteoarthritis and the future of stem cells on WNPR’s Colin McEnroe Show, as the state’s annual StemConn conference gets underway.

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Laughter as Medicine

NBC Connecticut, April 1, 2013

Check your calendars, it’s April first and how fitting on this April Fool’s Day, we’re going to talk about laughter as medicine. Karen Steinberg, a psychologist at the UConn Health Center, explains how laughter can actually help us feel better.

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