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UConn Health Simsbury Celebrates Grand Opening

UConn Health with the Town of Simsbury’s Leadership Hosted a Celebratory Ribbon Cutting and Facility Tours on June 13

UConn Gifts Clean Air: 150 DIY Indoor Air Filters Distributed to Connecticut Community for Protection from Wildfire Air Particles

You can learn online from UConn how to build your own DIY air purifier device with just $60 worth of hardware store supplies and 30 minutes of your time.

Dr. Danielle Luciano, UConn Health’s Director for Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery, Elise Courtois, Ph.D., an endometriosis researcher and director of single cell biology at JAX and Arleigh Cole Doyle, a patient, advocate and member of the Connecticut Endometriosis Working Group.

First-of-its-Kind Program Supports Endometriosis Patients

Connecticut is poised to become a hub for endometriosis research and innovation with the program operating through a partnership between UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory

UConn Dental Students and Faculty Provide Special Smiles to Special Olympics Athletes

Dental students and faculty from the UConn School of Dental Medicine volunteered for the Special Smiles a program of the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes program, a tradition that spans over two decades.

Bill Cateno riding an exercise bike under the direction of Dr. Moss.

Exercise Enthusiast Back at the Gym Following Successful Augmented Reality Spinal Surgery

Augmented reality spinal surgery – a minimally invasive procedure performed by UConn Health’s Dr. Isaac Moss – got him back to the gym with minimal pain and downtime.

Francesco S. Celi, MD, MHSc (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health)

Get to Know Endocrinologist Dr. Francesco Celi, New Chair of the Department of Medicine

NIH-funded Physician-Scientist Francesco S. Celi, MD, MHSc is the new chair of the Department of Medicine at UConn School of Medicine and UConn Health

Dr. Lauren Geaney examining patient's foot

UConn Health Leads Patient on Innovative Path to Restoring Pain-Free Mobility

UConn Health’s Dr. Lauren Geaney finds a solution for what was unsolvable, with a 3D-printed custom ankle replacement. Now her patient is walking again without pain.

runner with medal holds finish line above her head

UConn Health Half Marathon Draws 1,600+

See photos from the UConn Health Half Marathon, 10K & 5K, attended by more than 1,600 June 3 in Simsbury

Pride Lights at UConn Health

UConn Health Minute: Equitable Health Care

LGBTQ+ people frequently avoid health care because they experience discrimination. As internal medicine physician Ivan Stanford describes, UConn Health not only offers a variety of services but a welcoming, accessible environment for LGBTQ+ patients.

Three sections of optic nerve that were injured by crushing (the white diamond on the far left of each nerve marks the crush point.) The lower two nerves each express genes (Dynlt1a or Lars2) newly identified by the Trakhtenberg lab as promoting nerve axon regeneration. The axons carry the bright green dye. The insets to the right show how much more axon regrowth is occurring in the nerves that express the regeneration genes, and how no regrowth happens in the normal control (top).

New Nerve Insights Could Someday Help Heal Certain Types of Blindness and Paralysis

New research answers some of the big questions of how our nervous systems develop