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Innovative Device Could Offer New Hope for Heart Patients
A UConn graduate student is developing a new micro-scale power source that is significantly smaller and more efficient than the batteries used in most cardiac pacemakers today.
Divining Tumor Markers from DNA
UConn Health researchers are part of a cutting-edge initiative to discover cancer markers known as neoantigens, that will further the search for cancer immunotherapies.
Mind Over Bladder: The Brain-Organ Connection
UConn Health's Dr. Phillip P. Smith is conducting research on the brain's connection with bladder function as we age.
Coping Through Holiday Season Anxiety
A UConn Health psychiatrist offers tips for getting through potentially stressful holiday activities, including family get-togethers and post-election debates.
Four UConn Professors Named AAAS Fellows
The professors are being recognized for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Of Parking Garages, Nuclear Pasta, and Cosmic Connections
A unique cellular structure named after a UConn professor may also exist in the outer crust of neutron stars thousands of light-years away. Physicists are trying to figure out why.
At 40, It May Be Time For a Cholesterol-Lowering Drug
A UConn Health cardiologist discusses new prevention guidelines that could dislodge heart disease as the #1 killer of Americans.
Pneumonia Rates Linked to Hospital Ventilators Have Not Dropped, Says Study
Contrary to data published by the CDC, a study led by a UConn Health researcher concluded that ventilator-associated pneumonia is still a significant risk to patients.
Early Detection of Lung Cancer Saves Lives
'Early detection is a patient’s best chance for a lung cancer cure,' says UConn Health's Dr. Omar Ibrahim.
A Scary Halloween: High School Custodian Survives Cardiac Arrest
Thanks to prompt treatment by a UConn Health team, patient Clyde Livingston gets 'a second chance at life.'