{"id":54732,"date":"2012-02-10T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=54732"},"modified":"2012-03-29T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:05:56","slug":"health-center-in-the-news-february-10-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/02\/health-center-in-the-news-february-10-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center in the News \u2013 February 10, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Dirty Ice<\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><em>Aired on NBC Connecticut, Feb. 6, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you go into a restaurant you generally think the primary concern would be to keep the food safe and sanitary. But have you considered the cleanliness of the ice in those ice machines? Infection prevention specialist with the UConn Health Center, Nancy Dupont, is interviewed by NBC Connecticut\u2019s Monica Buchanan about the guidelines restaurants are supposed to follow when handling ice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4oZlEE7_7oU\">Play the video &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"work\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u2018There Has to Be a Way to Put Me out of Work\u2019<\/h3>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><em>Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, Jan. 21, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heart.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/lahey.html\">Dr. Stephen Lahey<\/a>, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center, joins <a href=\"http:\/\/connecticut.cbslocal.com\/audio-on-demand\/healthy-rounds\/\">\u201cHealthy Rounds\u201d with Dr. Anthony Alessi<\/a> to discuss cardiothoracic surgery options and the future of cardiothoracic surgery, including the hope that someday it no longer will be necessary because of advances in heart disease prevention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.uchc.edu\/audio\/lahey_1_21_12.mp3\">Listen to the broadcast &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Pros and Cons of the PSA Test<\/h3>\n<p><em>Aired on Fox CT on Jan. 23, 2012<\/em><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this two-part FOX CT story with reporter Tim Lammers, <a href=\"http:\/\/cancer.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/albertsen.html\">Dr. Peter Albertsen<\/a>, chief of urology, explains the findings of a government task force raising questions about the PSA test used to detect prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/eGMXeGVFtW0\">Play the video for Part 1 &gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jZhgT8sLqFA\">Play the video for Part 2 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Prenatal Genetic Testing: As Technology Improves, Women Can Have Less Invasive Testing<\/h3>\n<p><em>Aired on Where We Live \u2013 WNPR, Jan. 26, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s during the first trimester when women are first asked about whether they want to have genetic tests done to check on the baby&#8217;s development.\u00a0 Genetic counselor Alicia Craffey is interviewed on WNPR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourpublicmedia.org\/content\/profile\/featured\/where-we-live\"><em>Where We Live<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>program about how parents decide if they want to undergo tests and what happens when results come back with news they weren&#8217;t expecting?<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.uchc.edu\/audio\/craffey_1_26_12.mp3\">Listen to the broadcast &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest advances in heart surgery; pros and cons of the PSA test; and how sanitary is that ice in your drink?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":53726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-54732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:05:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57513,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54732\/revisions\/57513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/53726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54732"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=54732"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}