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Podcast: Retraining the Brain With Neurosurgical Breakthrough

Dr. Christopher Conner from UConn Health’s Brain and Spine Institute explains vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for stroke survivors

Women’s Health Research Efforts of UConn Health Spotlighted at AAMC

UConn Health's Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) were honored for their successful inaugural Women’s Health Clinical, Health Disparities, Basic Science Research Poster Symposium.

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin speaking at the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.

UConn Professor Cato T. Laurencin Presents at Dreyfus Foundation’s 2024 Teacher-Scholar Symposium

The Teacher-Scholar Symposium highlights emerging areas in the chemical sciences, with many Teacher-Scholars presenting posters of their research while also featuring talks from senior scientists.

Students from the UConn Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine, learn anatomy in the interactive virtual anatomy laboratory

Virtual Anatomy Lab

An authentic experience with current imaging methods

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UConn Working to Improve the Lives of Those with an Underactive Thyroid

NIH Grant Award Fueling New Clinical Trial Testing Novel Treatment Approaches for Patients Affected by Hypothyroidism.

Smokers and Never Smokers are at Risk for Lung Cancer and UConn Health is on the Forefront of Finding it Early

It's lung cancer awareness month and UConn Health is on the forefront of technology to find it before it is even detectable or in the early stages leading to treatment and cures.

two physicians performing a colonoscopy

Colonoscopies Are Good; New Tech Makes Them Better

UConn Health now has its most advanced technology for GI procedures

Growing Palliative Care Team Expands Access into Ambulatory Setting

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and we celebrate the first anniversary of the palliative care inpatient program and launch a new outpatient palliative care program at UConn John Dempsey Hospital.

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Meet a Health Care Hero and UConn Medical Student

The Hartford Business Journal honors fourth-year UConn medical student Nivedha Natchiappan of Avon for creating a new social determinants of health screening for newly diagnosed gynecologic cancer patients.

Dr. Cato T. Laurencin with Lifetime Research awardee Dr. Selwyn M. Vickers and Dr. Randall C. Morgan, W. Montague Cobb Institute President/CEO.

Cato T. Laurencin Lifetime Research Award Given to Dr. Selwyn M. Vickers, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center President and CEO

The Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D. Lifetime Research Award is one of the highest honors bestowed by the W. Montague Cobb/ National Medical Association Health Institute and the National Medical Association.