Health & Well-Being

A colorful and healthy assortment of fruits and vegetables arranged in the shape of a heart

Delicious Medicine: UConn Extension and Danbury’s Food Farmacy

UConn Extension nutrition experts are helping hundreds of shoppers use food as medicine and learn about healthy cooking

Dr. Nicole Gavin sits with her patients, mom Shana Suarez and baby daughter Dallas.

Celebrating Mother’s Day with a Miracle Baby

Shana Suarez was blessed with a miracle baby after years of trying. A life-threatening condition becoming more common in mothers brought her to the Maternal Fetal Medicine team at UConn Health

First in Connecticut: Ischemic Stroke Survivors Have Renewed Hope with the Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device Now Available at UConn Health

Dr. Christopher Connor, neurosurgeon at UConn Health’s Brain and Spine Institute was the first to use the MicroTransponder®, Inc.’s Vivistim® Paired VNS™ System, an FDA-approved, breakthrough technology for stroke survivors experiencing ongoing hand and arm impairment

Lily Zhong and her poster "Cardiovascular interventions may provide differential benefits by patients' frailty"

Lily Zhong’s American Geriatrics Society Award ‘Unprecedented’

2nd straight year a UConn medical student wins Edward Henderson Student Award

A family on a bridge trail looking out into nature.

Ask UConn Extension: Tips to Stop Bugging Out on the Trails

Enjoying Connecticut's trails doesn't have to include a bite from ticks, mosquitoes, or stinging insects

A group of college students poses for a photo in a classroom while wearing sock puppets on their hands.

Students From Public Health House Learning Community Feel Their Best Self

Interdisciplinary collaboration between UConn’s Collaboratory on School and Child Health, Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, and the Public Health House Learning Community allows students to see the possibilities of the future

Students, faculty, and alumni from health majors across the university celebrated World Health Day on Fairfield Way with informational and interactive events (Jason Sheldon/UConn Photo)

UConn Holds First-Ever World Health Day Fair

What started out as a way to highlight one major turned into a university-wide event helping students explore careers, studies, and experiences in health care

Joan Munroe portrait at lobby front desk

‘I Still Have Something to Offer This World’

UConn Health celebrates its volunteers

Sunrise on Horsebarn Hill.

Language and Landscape: Building Communication Skills in Natural Environments

Horsebarn Hill is among the learning environments helping a UConn researcher conduct potentially life-changing research for minimally verbal autistic young adults

Dr. Katherine Coyner examines a patient's right leg

Keeping Women Healthy and Active

Introducing the Women’s Center for Motion and Performance at UConn Health