Health & Well-Being

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Study: Electroshock Therapy More Successful for Depression than Ketamine

Therapeutic technique, portrayed unfavorably in films and TV shows, shows consistently better results with treatment-resistant depression

Sandy Valentine, health promotion manager for the division of Student Health and Wellness, stands outside the UConn Recovery Community’s current home in the Cordial Storrs House on Oct. 12, 2022.

‘No One is Expecting You to Be Perfect’

UConn's Recovery Community Center offers a supportive space for students, faculty, staff, and allies

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Spotlight on Services: UConn Health Pharmacy

Meet some of the pharmacy employees who are part of a dedicated staff that includes more than 85 employees in nearly 20 roles, many in areas that never close.

Biomedical engineer Liisa Kuhn holds the soft, breathable material that serves as an alternative to uncomfortable, unnatural-looking prosthetics.

3D Printing Technology Benefits Breast Cancer Survivors

'It's been a need for many, many years, and it takes someone like a biomedical engineer to say, "I can do this"'

Surgeon in surgical setting

Nuances of Prostate Cancer Detection

Multiparametric MRI may not definitively identify or rule out prostate cancer, but it often tells us enough to inform a treatment course and can help reduce the need for biopsy in some men, as UConn Health’s Dr. Benjamin Ristau explains.

Stroke folders and labels at the Emergency Department at UConn Health in Farmington.

A Different Kind of Therapy for Stroke

A promising research path that could one day yield major benefits for future

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Physician Returns With Elite Training in Challenging Infections

Two years after completing an internal medicine residency at UConn Health, Dr. David Fraulino is back, now as a faculty physician, bringing specialized expertise in especially difficult infectious disease.

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Sorting Through the Noise of Mental Health Apps

Sherry Pagoto offers guidance on how to navigate the thicket of 10,000 (and counting) mental health apps available online

The iron lung on display at the Carolyn Ladd Widmer Wing of Storrs hall on April 3, 2018. These mechanical respirators were familiar sights in the US before the development of the polio vaccine.

Polio Vaccination Rates in Some Areas of the US Hover Dangerously Close to the Threshold Required for Herd Immunity – Here’s Why that Matters

The US recently recorded its first case of polio in nearly a decade

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Helping Schools Put ‘Whole Child’ into Policy and Practice

The UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health launches “WSCC blueprints” to help schools implement the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model.