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Keeping Black Mothers-To-Be and their Babies Safe

This Black History Month UConn Health is Raising Awareness of the Importance of Greater Safeguards to Ensure Black Maternal Health

UConn Students Gift 100 Mini Air Filters to the VA

On February 23 UConn students drove from Storrs to the VA to deliver student-made small, portable air purifiers. 

War in Ukraine Reaches Two Year Mark

The “ДЕТИ: Where are you?" Project and new song of UConn Health’s Dr. Leo Wolansky to heighten awareness of the plight of Ukraine’s children.

UConn Health campus on January 8, 2024, captured by drone. (Ethan Giorgetti/UConn Health Photo).

Gov. Lamont Launches Pilot Program at UConn Health Using Innovative Technology to Reduce Carbon Footprint and Deliver Substantial Energy Cost Savings

Newest energy solution deployed at UConn Health’s Child Care Center building in pilot funded by Connecticut Innovations.

Women presenting to group

71 Going on 32: Patient Tells of ‘Successful Aging’

Advises UConn medical students on caring for older adults

Healthy Gums, Healthy Heart: What’s the Connection?

Gum health and heart health are more intertwined than you think.

An older woman sits alone in her kitchen, half hidden by shadows, staring pensively out her window.

For Treatment-Resistant Depression, Two Drugs May Be Better Than One

'Depression is not a normal part of aging. Nothing could be further from the truth'

A hand clad in blue surgical glove holds a syringe and vial of MMR vaccine.

Measles: Harbinger of Herd Immunity Concerns

Connecticut in relatively good position to fight off resurgence, says UConn Health expert

Keep Beat with Your Heart Health and Your Family’s Cardiovascular Health History

An annual checkup can help identify irregular heartbeat conditions including the most common arrhythmia we can develop as we age called atrial fibrillation.

Maureen Marchetti, and her husband Jim, on Jan. 25 with her UConn Health Vascular Surgeon Dr. Justin D’Addario celebrating her big day of being the first in New England to undergo the DETOUR procedure for severe PAD (UConn Health Photo/Carolyn Pennington).

UConn’s Vascular Surgeons Take DETOUR to Save Woman’s Toes, Foot, and Leg from Peripheral Arterial Disease

Maureen Marchetti was the first patient in New England to be offered an alternative to major open leg artery bypass surgery with a new technology called DETOUR