{"id":61656,"date":"2012-06-18T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=61656"},"modified":"2012-06-19T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T19:53:57","slug":"print-health-center-in-the-news-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/06\/print-health-center-in-the-news-june-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Print \u2013 Health Center in the News \u2013 June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>State Awards $9.8 Million for Stem Cell Projects<\/h2>\n<p><em>Hartford Courant, June 18, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Monday   announced $9.8 million in grants to 19 stem cell research projects in the   state. The Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee had selected the   recipients at its grant review meeting last Tuesday in Farmington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/health\/connecticut\/hc-stem-cell-grants-0619-20120618,0,5450926.story\" target=\"_blank\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Migrant Farm Workers: Medical Care for an Invisible Population<\/h2>\n<p><em>American Medical News, June 11, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the summer, internist Bruce Gould, MD, drives to the farm fields that stretch across Connecticut to see his patients. He arrives at night after the migrant farmworkers have finished harvesting tobacco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/amednews\/2012\/06\/11\/hlsa0611.htm\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>At UConn, Two Key Players&#8217; Paths Cross Again<\/h2>\n<p><em>Connecticut Mirror, June 11, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first time they met, in the early 1980s, Frank Torti and Edison Liu were newly minted doctors, Liu training to be a cancer specialist at Stanford University and Torti a young oncology professor who taught him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctmirror.org\/story\/16542\/uconn-two-key-players-paths-cross-again\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Tests of Parents<\/h2>\n<p><em>New York Times, June 7, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary piece of technology, really quite remarkable,\u201d said Peter Benn, professor of genetics and developmental biology at the University of Connecticut, who was not involved in the work. \u201cWhat I see in this paper is a glance into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s.uconn.edu\/a5\" target=\"_blank\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>High-Profile Feature: John Dempsey Hospital<\/h2>\n<p><em>High Profile Monthly, June 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Work is under way on the $318 million improvements project at the UConn Health Center in Farmington that includes renovations to the John Dempsey Hospital and construction of a new 11-story patient care tower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.uchc.edu\/pdfs\/highprofile201206-p16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State stem cell grants awarded; medical care for migrant farm workers; two key players&#8217; paths cross again; DNA blueprint built for fetus; and the Health Center\u2019s improvement project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60761,"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-61656","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":"2026-05-09 07:14:28","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\/61656","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=61656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61666,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61656\/revisions\/61666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/60761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61656"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=61656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=61656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}