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The hallway around the perimeter of the academic addition allows ample natural lighting and a first-story view.(Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health)

Academic Addition on Track for Start of Academic Year at UConn Health

A new era in education at UConn Health starts next month, when medical, dental and graduate students start using new space in the academic building.

July 14, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco

Award-winning physician-scientist Dr. Pramod K. Srivastava, director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center in his lab at UConn Health is developing a novel immunotherapy vaccine for difficult to treat ovarian cancer

Connecticut Innovations Fuels UConn’s Development of Personalized Ovarian Cancer Therapy

Dr. Pramod Srivastava, director of UConn Health's Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center has been awarded $500,000 from Connecticut Innovations to help fuel his development of an advanced personalized immunotherapy vaccine for ovarian cancer.

July 12, 2016 | Office of the Vice President for Research

This August plan to attend one of UConn Health's many planned programs or events.

UConn Health August 2016 Programs, Events

This August plan to attend one of UConn Health's many series of community events or programs it will be hosting.

July 12, 2016 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)

exercise safely this summer

Exercise Safely this Summer

Summer is heating up. The UConn Musculoskeletal Institute’s experts in the Division of Sports Medicine offers their best health tips so you can safely stay active this summer during your exercise and recreational sport events.

July 7, 2016 | Lauren Woods

Thermometer on summer day showing high temperature over 100 degrees F, and glass of water. (iStock Photo)

Beat the Heat

The medical director of the UConn Health Emergency Department discusses the symptoms of heat-related illness and how to avoid it.

July 6, 2016 | Lauren Woods

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Dr. Dawn Murphy (center) meets with clinical staff in the University Tower, including nurse case managers Andrea Torres (left) and Catherine Zimmerman (right). In her role as a transitionist, Murphy discusses patients with hospital care teams, enabling continuity when she sees those same patients in a nursing home for their post-acute care. (Photo by Janine Gelineau)

UConn Geriatrician Follows Patients to Their (Nursing) Home

UConn Health is developing a care plan in which it sends a geriatrician to a community nursing home to care for patients following their discharge from UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

June 30, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco

The UConn Bookstore at UConn Health opened earlier this month. Barnes & Noble College is the new operator of all the university’s bookstores. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)

Bookstore Reopens Under New Management

The UConn Bookstore at UConn Health opened earlier this month. Additional inventory is expected to arrive over the course of the next several weeks.

June 30, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco

Illustration of human body with highlighted colon, or large intestine. (iStock Photo)

UConn Health Colorectal Cancer Researchers Redefining ‘Early Detection’

Thanks to a large volume of accumulated data, high-definition microscopy, and a skilled surgeon's experience, researchers are closing in on ways to identify who’s most at risk for colorectal cancer.

June 28, 2016 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)

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Dr. Thomas Devers (standing) provides biopsies from dozens of colonoscopies a year – and demographic data from about 1,000 colonoscopies a year – to the laboratory of Daniel W. Rosenberg (left). The collaboration has led to several studies that are on track for publication. Allen Mo (right) is first author of a paper that was just accepted by a major scientific journal. (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

UConn Health Colorectal Cancer Researchers Redefining ‘Early Detection’

Thanks to volumes of epidemiological data they've amassed, UConn Health researchers are closing in on ways to identify who’s most at risk for colorectal cancer.

June 24, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco

UConn Health July 2016 Programs, Events

This July UConn Health will be hosting a series of programs and events. Check the online schedule to join us soon.

June 22, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco