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Get Fit by Walking with a Future Doc
UConn School of Medicine medical students are launching their "Walk with a Future Doc" program. Join the free walks occurring on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month to get fit and learn new ways to boost your health. The first walk is Aug. 10 at 9:00 a.m at Elizabeth Park in West Hartford.
Ways to Naturally Lower Your Cholesterol
High cholesterol is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Learn how UConn Health's Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center is teaching patients how to naturally lower their cholesterol.
Nurse Makes Lifesaving Catch
Read how a nurse at UConn Health made a lifesaving catch by spotting a Bristol man's dangerous, abnormal heart rhythm on the heart monitor moments before he was to be discharged home.
Op-Ed: It might be hard to view addiction with compassion. But we must.
Read an opinion editorial first published in the Hartford Courant by Annie Abbate of UConn School of Medicine’s class of 2020.
The Medical Debt Crisis in America
A new study brief by researchers at the Health Disparities Institute of UConn Health is shining light on the growing issue of medical debt.
Patient Gets a New Lifesaving Silver Lining
A local patient is celebrating her 68th birthday thanks to the lifesaving vascular surgery care she received at UConn John Dempsey Hospital. Becky Riendeau is the first patient at UConn Health and the second in the state to be treated surgically for an aortic dissection using a newly FDA-approved aortic stent graft technology called Zenith.
Food Insecurity Leading to Type 2 Diabetes
Compared with food secure individuals, food insecure individuals had significantly higher insulin resistance, insulin, glucose, stress hormones, inflammation, and total cholesterol.
National Infection Control Community Honors Nancy Dupont
Nancy Dupont, MPH, BSN, R.N., of UConn Health has been honored by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
A Voice for Sickle Cell Patients
World Sickle Cell Day is Wednesday, June 19. Learn how Genice Nelson, DNP, of UConn Health's New England Sickle Cell Institute has been advocating for sickle cell patients for nearly two decades -- and learn 10 facts about sickle cell disease that you may not know to raise your awareness.
UConn John Dempsey Hospital Honored for Excellent Heart Attack Care
UConn John Dempsey Hospital has been awarded the new AHA’s Mission: Lifeline Heart Attack Receiving Center Accreditation for its continued excellence in heart attack patient care.