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UConn Health researcher Kourosh Parham has found a new biomarker that may facilitate early diagnosis of hearing loss in patients before their condition becomes severe. (Frank Barton/UConn Health Photo).

Detecting Hearing Loss, Vertigo Via Blood Tests

A UConn physician-scientist has filed for patents on blood tests that can provide early diagnosis of these common disorders.

Molecular Biologist Sandra Weller Talks about “What’s Possible”

What my research team hopes to make possible is a new therapy to treat a ubiquitous and formidable foe – the herpes simplex virus. There has been an epic evolutionary battle being waged between viruses and humans for millions of years. Herpes simplex is one of the nastiest and most common viruses that infect humans. […]

The UConn Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine held Convocation for the incoming medical and dental students Thursday. The guest speaker was Dr. Ken Yanagisawa, who graduated from the UConn School of Medicine in 1988. (Photo by Janine Gelineau)

Convocation for Incoming Medical, Dental Students

The 2016-17 academic year is underway at UConn Health, with the first-year students undergoing orientation this week. Thursday, the UConn Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine held a convocation for the 149 medical and dental students making up the newest incoming classes. The convocation carries a dual theme of viewing medicine and dental medicine as […]

Med Student Finishes Cross-country Bike Tour Solo

Four started, one finished. Rising second-year medical student Emily Wilkins is home after bicycling coast-to-coast to raise money for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Wilkins pedaled nearly 3,500 miles this summer, capping the 11th cross-country bike tour that has become a UConn School of Medicine tradition. What was different this year, in addition […]

Sickle Cell care enhanced

Enhancing Care for Sickle Cell Patients

Dr. Biree Andemariam and her New England Sickle Cell Institute at UConn Health, the first and only dedicated center of its kind in the region, has opened a new, comprehensive outpatient center enhancing care further for sickle cell patients.

Student-athlete Ryan Radue ’15 (BUS) survived cancer and was able to graduate after receiving treatment at UConn Health.

The Power of Possible

A dynamic new advertising campaign to share cutting-edge medical advances at UConn Health launches this week.

AOA

UConn School of Medicine joins AΩA

UConn School of Medicine has been selected to become the 130th chapter of the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AΩA).

Medical Education Skull Models Are Still Here Training Future Doctors

More information on the incorrect media reports of missing skulls at UConn School of Medicine at UConn Health.

“This is a big clinical breakthrough in dermatology. Up to 60 percent of our patients with a suspicious skin lesion or mole are being spared a biopsy,” thanks to confocal technology says Dr. Jane Grant-Kels of UConn Health Dermatology (Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Photo)

Finding Skin Cancer in a Flash

The latest advanced smart technology at UConn Health hunts for skin cancer and keeps an eye on changing moles.

Dr. Douglas

The Rebirth of Family Medicine

In a new video and Q & A article Dr. Montgomery Douglas, chair of the Department of Family Medicine at UConn Health shares his perspective on the rebirth of the family medicine physician.