School of Medicine

Auxiliary Appealing for New Members to Keep up Good Deeds

What do the Connucopia Gift Shop, the Creative Child Center, UConn Health’s art collection, and the patient education floors in the Outpatient Pavilion have in common? They were all made possible by the UConn Health Auxiliary, a small group of dedicated volunteers whose efforts help raise money for those and other programs to benefit the […]

Senior woman in conversation at Christmas dinner. (vm/Getty Images)

Hidden Hearing Loss Revealed

Researchers at the UConn School of Medicine have developed a new test that can identify hearing deficits in some people who have normal hearing test results.

Royce Mohan (seated) and Paola Bargagna-Mohan are part of a team of UConn researchers developing an imaging technique that will signal problems in blood vessels near the eye that could lead to vision loss. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

Eyeing Early Detection of Precursor to Blindness

UConn scientists are working with a biomarker to enable earlier detection of a condition that leads to age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the U.S.

Lakshmi S. Nair, Ph.D, of UConn and UConn Health has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious National Academy of Inventors (Chris DeFrancesco/UConn Health).

Awards and Honors

Awards and honors continue to roll in for the faculty, staff and students at UConn Health. Read more about our recent accolades.

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This Holiday Season, Think Twice Before Gifting Video Games

'The last thing you want to do is feed a child’s addiction with more games,' says UConn Health addiction expert Nancy Petry.

Lung cancer patient Michel Gueret, left, with his oncologist at UConn Health, Dr. Jeffrey Wasser. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

Advanced Lung Cancer Knocked Out in Clinical Trial

Advanced lung cancer patient Michel Gueret had a life expectancy of less than a year at the time of diagnosis. After participating in an immunotherapy clinical trial at UConn Health, he now has no more lung cancer symptoms.

Meet 6 Physicians Now Seeing Patients at UConn Health

Experts in multiple sclerosis, psychiatry, women’s health, infectious diseases, and nephrology have joined the clinical faculty in recent months. Dr. Matthew Tremblay is a neurologist who specializes in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology. He directs the Department of Neurology’s multiple sclerosis clinic. In addition to multiple sclerosis, he has expertise in the management of neuromyelitis optica, […]

Lifestyle Medicine Patient: Success When So Many Others Fail

Melissa Dzierlatka is beating the odds - after losing more than 160 pounds she's kept the weight off more than a year later and is no longer borderline diabetic.

Stroke Survivor Strums Guitar Again

When a stroke limited Bruce Cleinman’s use of his left arm and hand, one of his biggest concerns was he wouldn’t be able to play guitar anymore. But he followed the recovery plan of the UConn Health Stroke Program, customized for him. In a matter of weeks he was strumming his guitar again.

Come in from the Cold to View New Winter Art Exhibit at UConn Health

The art exhibits of Patricia Corbett and Katherine Schwartz will be shown at the Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health until March 9, 2017.