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How You Can Help UConn Health Fight Coronavirus
UConn Health has been overwhelmed by the generosity of people seeking to help frontline workers in the battle against COVID-19. Here's how you can help.
Amidst COVID-19 Outbreak, UConn Researchers Working on Simple, Low-Cost CRISPR-based Diagnostic Test for Infectious Diseases
UConn researchers are working to develop a simple, low-cost method of testing for coronavirus and other infectious diseases.
When to Get Your Next Colonoscopy
The chief of UConn Health’s Division of Gastroenterology explains the latest recommendations.
UConn’s Dr. Anthony Alessi Looks Out For Connecticut in “Healthy Rounds”
Dr. Anthony Alessi is the host of “Healthy Rounds” on WTIC NewsTalk 1080. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, the show has gone to a daily format from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Medication in the Time of COVID-19: Listen to the Experts
A panel of UConn experts cut through misinformation and rumor about drug treatments for COVID-19.
UConn Health Seeking Donations of Personal Protective Equipment
Despite the fact that everyone in the state is under unprecedented levels of stress and vulnerability, UConn Health has benefitted from incredible acts of generosity from the community.
Coping With COVID? Mastering Social (But Not Emotional) Distancing
A UConn Health expert provides his analysis of how the coronavirus outbreak has changed our world, and offers recommendations on how to deal with the related stress and anxiety.
Taking More From Cancer Than It Takes From Me
Paige Dunion was inspired by the story of Marisa Dolce, the first patient at UConn Health to use the Dignicap® to preserve her hair while she was going through chemotherapy. Little did she think that a month later she would be diagnosed with breast cancer and faced with the prospect of losing her hair. After […]
Widening Women’s Paths to Orthopedic Surgery
It’s a historically male-dominated medical specialty, but UConn Health orthopedic surgeon Katherine Coyner is working to change the course of that history.
U.S. Surgeon General Visits UConn Health, Urges Physicians to be Communicators
US Surgeon General Jerome Adams talked to UConn Health students about coronavirus, the opioid epidemic, and the duty of health professionals to be communicators.