Health & Well-Being

Natalie Tocco looking through a microscope

Studying ‘Creatures Great and Small’ as a Veterinary Pathologist

As a veterinary pathologist, Natalie Tocco has had the opportunity to study creatures great and small herself – from black bears, to beluga whales, to elephants, and invertebrates

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UConn Health’s Rapid, Coordinated Care Saves Woman with Ultra-Rare Blood Cancer

Rich Callasky strongly believes his wife is still here today because of the decision to come to UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

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Study: Sympathy Works Best on Health Warnings

UConn professor's research pit narrative versus nonnarrative pictorial warning labels against one another and measured their emotive effects

Brick building with signage that says UConn Health Waterbury Hospital

Waterbury Hospital Joins UConn Health Community Network,  Strengthening Care for the Community  

Transition creates a new system of care for the Waterbury community and beyond  

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Living with Confidence

Patient with inherited blood clot disorder finds support at UConn Health

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves portrait and Dr. Tony Alessi candid at microphone in studio

‘Healthy Rounds’: Medicaid Myths, Keeping CT Families Healthy

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves and Dr. Alessi discuss the impacts of social determinants of health

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‘Love Is Not a Plan’

UConn researcher talks about the different forms that caregiving can take, the result of absent social safety nets, and how ableism permeates the culture

Dr. Edmund Farris speaking to female patient in exam room

UConn Health’s Ophthalmology Chief Joins Statewide Society Leadership

Dr. Edmund Farris begins 2-year term on Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians executive board

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A Pill Explores New Frontier in Early Parkinson’s Disease Treatment

UConn School of Medicine offering innovative clinical trial testing novel pill’s impact for reducing inflammation to treat Parkinson’s disease

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COVID Virus Declining in Northeast Animals

A group of Connecticut researchers now better understand the current coronaviral landscape of wild and domestic animals in the northeastern United States