Dr. Jonathan Meiers<\/a>, chair the UConn School of Dental Medicine\u2019s Division of Operative Dentistry, joins Ray Dunaway on WTIC NewsTalk 1080<\/a> to discuss cavity-causing sports drinks and energy drinks.<\/p>\n Listen to the Broadcast > <\/strong>Aired on ESPN Radio 97.9-FM, May 4, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Thomas Trojian<\/a>, director of the Injury Prevention and Sports Outreach Programs at the New England Musculoskeletal Institute, joins The Bower Show<\/a> to discuss what lies ahead for the Yankees\u2019 Mariano Rivera following his ACL injury.<\/p>\n Listen to the Broadcast > <\/strong>Aired on WNPR-FM, May 2, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. William White<\/a>, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hypertension in the Calhoun Cardiology Center, joins a panel discussion on WNPR\u2019s \u201cWhere We Live\u201d<\/a> about industry\u2019s influence on medicine and the safeguards in place to prevent biased research and medical decisions.<\/p>\n Listen to the Broadcast > <\/strong>American Medical News, April 23, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n The patient in front of William B. White, MD, an internist in Farmington, Conn., was being treated for hypertension, but he was worrying more about financial pressure than blood pressure.<\/em><\/p>\n Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n Reuters, April 11, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n A new study suggests people who had certain kinds of dental X-rays in the past may be at an increased risk for meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor in the U.S. “They found a small risk (from) a pair of bitewings, but not a full mouth series, which is multiple bitewings. That inconsistency is impossible to understand to me,” said Dr. Alan Lurie<\/a>, president of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.<\/p>\n Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n Follow\u00a0the UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tooth decay linked to energy drinks; recovering from a career-threatening injury; conflicts of interest in health care; and can dental x-rays lead to brain tumors? <\/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-59814","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":"2026-04-21 04:36:31","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\/59814","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=59814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59885,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59814\/revisions\/59885"}],"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=59814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59814"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=59814"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRecovering from Career-threatening Injury<\/h2>\n
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\nPhysicians Feeling Pressure from Patients\u2019 Financial Problems<\/h2>\n
\nDental X-rays Linked to Common Brain Tumor<\/h2>\n
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