Health & Well-Being
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
May 13, 2024 | Stacey Stearns, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources & UConn Extension
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
May 10, 2024 | Jennifer Walker
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
May 9, 2024 | Jennifer Walker
Lily Zhong’s American Geriatrics Society Award ‘Unprecedented’
2nd straight year a UConn medical student wins Edward Henderson Student Award
May 8, 2024 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
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
May 7, 2024 | Stacey Stearns, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources & UConn Extension
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
May 1, 2024 | Molly Ferreira
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
April 30, 2024 | Jason Sheldon
‘I Still Have Something to Offer This World’
UConn Health celebrates its volunteers
April 25, 2024 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)
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
April 25, 2024 | Elaina Hancock
Keeping Women Healthy and Active
Introducing the Women’s Center for Motion and Performance at UConn Health
April 23, 2024 | Chris DeFrancesco '94 (CLAS)