{"id":63813,"date":"2012-08-07T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=63813"},"modified":"2012-08-10T08:41:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:41:29","slug":"health-center-in-the-news-%e2%80%93-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/08\/health-center-in-the-news-%e2%80%93-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center in the News \u2013 August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Helping Young Athletes Avoid Injuries<\/h2>\n<p><em>The Daily Voice, August 8, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nemsi.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/trojian.html\">Dr. Thomas Trojian<\/a> of the University of Connecticut Health Center says the greatest risk is in sports with rapid changes of direction, as basketball, football, and soccer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newcanaan.dailyvoice.com\/sports\/new-canaan-helps-young-athletes-avoid-injuries\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cash Rewards Keep People on Their Medications<\/h2>\n<p><em>Fox News, August 3, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the new study, <a href=\"http:\/\/facultydirectory.uchc.edu\/profile?profileId=Petry-Nancy\">Dr. Nancy Petry<\/a> and her team at the University of Connecticut looked at 21 studies that offered incentives to people taking medication for tuberculosis, substance abuse, HIV, hepatitis, schizophrenia and stroke prevention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2012\/08\/03\/cash-rewards-keep-people-on-their-medications\/#ixzz234vtShc3\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Aetna CEO and 30-Year-Old Bond Over Staggering Cancer Bills<\/h2>\n<p><em>ABCNews.com, August 1, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, colorectal cancer is not that uncommon among younger people like Guha, especially those who have a family history of early-onset disease. &#8220;It&#8217;s not shocking at all,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/cancer.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/levine.html\">Dr. Joel Levine<\/a>, founding director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cancer.uchc.edu\/treatment\/services\/colon.html\" target=\"external\">Colon Cancer Prevention Program<\/a> at the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/aetna-ceo-arizona-student-bond-cancer-diagnosis-broken\/story?id=16906861\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder<\/h2>\n<p><em>Aired on FOX CT, July 29, 2012<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctnow.com\/\">FOX CT<\/a> Health Watch report with Tim Lammers, clinical psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/uconndocs.uchc.edu\/PhysicianProfile.aspx?ID=381\">Julian Ford<\/a> discusses post-traumatic stress disorder as it relates to events like the Colorado theater shooting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PRnqIlzUqrQ\">Watch the video&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PRnqIlzUqrQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/uconn-today\/images\/icon_video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"62\" height=\"17\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 62px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 62\/17;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young athletes and injuries; health benefits of cash rewards; colorectal cancer strikes at any age; and the warning signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/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":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-63813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:31:26","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\/63813","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=63813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63831,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63813\/revisions\/63831"}],"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=63813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63813"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=63813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=63813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}