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A Plan for Parkinson’s Patients
UConn Health’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center now offers supportive care and planning services, enabling an early start on the long-term prognosis for patients as well as their family members and caregivers.
2nd Simon Award Recognizes Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis Providers
A team of multiple sclerosis providers and the stroke clinical program coordinator are the co-winners of UConn Health’s second annual Dr. Richard Simon Excellence in Clinical Neurosciences Award.
PODCAST: A Clear Voice on Vocal Health
Two founders of UConn Health's Voice and Speech Clinic join the UConn Health Pulse podcast to discuss voice disorders and how their practice helps voice users of all levels.
Pandemic Aside, All Tech Systems Go
UConn Health’s continuation of services for the duration of the pandemic is possible in large part because of the efforts by the information technology professionals who helped keep everything – and everyone – working.
UConn Health Sponsors Symposium for High School Scientists
The top five honorees from this year’s Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium earned the right to represent the state at the national symposium in April.
‘Quality’: More Than a Selling Point
Leaders from the UConn John Dempsey Hospital Quality Department explain the importance of quality management in a hospital setting and what their team does to meet quality, safety, service, and performance objectives in a collaborative fashion.
Psoriasis Center Brings Together Patients, Providers, and Researchers
UConn Health has transformed its former John Dempsey Hospital emergency department space into a center for its dermatologists to provide coordinated care of psoriasis patients.
High-Profile Brain Tumor Therapy Trial Chooses UConn Health
An immunotherapy derived from the polio virus has shown improved survival rates in early-phase trials in patients with an aggressive type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma. UConn Health will be one of a select few sites in the U.S. for the second phase, which will pair it with the cancer immunotherapy pembrolizumab (Keytruda).
Podcast: Changing MS Patients’ Trajectory
The UConn Health Multiple Sclerosis Center's director and clinical care coordinator explain how the elite care of an MS center can minimize disease progression and delay the onset of disability.
Winter in the Emergency Department: Careful With that Snowblower
Add potential COVID-19 cases to the list of what the providers in the UConn John Dempsey Hospital ED are seeing this time of year, along with winter’s common health hazards from snow removal and injuries from winter sports.