Listen to the broadcast > Connecticut Mirror, April 9, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n The Connecticut Insurance Department is working with psychiatrists at the UConn Health Center to develop a plain-language guide for consumers and behavioral health providers to make it clear what they’ll need to submit to get insurance coverage.<\/p>\n Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n WTIC 1080 News, April 4, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Dr. Patrick Coll from the UConn Center on Aging comments on a recent study that finds the most expensive American health care problem to treat is dementia.<\/p>\n Hear three reports from WTIC’s John Silva > <\/b>Hartford Courant, April 4, 2013<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n A college professor recently told Dr. William White<\/a> at the University of Connecticut Health Center that he was often forgetting things. “He said ‘I get so worried about this \u2014 I think I’m getting Alzheimer’s,'” said White, professor of hypertension and clinical pharmacology at the UConn School of Medicine. “But it wasn’t Alzheimer’s.”<\/p>\n Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n Connecticut Health I-team, April 4, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n UConn\u2019s John Dempsey Hospital has drastically reduced the frequency of \u201ccombination\u201d CT scans of patients\u2019 chests and abdomens, as federal regulators have clamped down on the practice, which carries a risk of excess radiation.<\/p>\n Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n WNPR, The Colin McEnroe Show, April 1, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Caroline Dealy<\/a>, associate professor, University of Connecticut Health Center and the Co-Founder and CEO of Chondrogenics, talks about her research into osteoarthritis and the future of stem cells on WNPR\u2019s Colin McEnroe Show, as the state\u2019s annual StemConn conference gets underway.<\/p>\n Listen to the broadcast > NBC\u00a0Connecticut, April 1, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Check your calendars, it\u2019s April first and how fitting on this April Fool\u2019s Day, we\u2019re going to talk about laughter as medicine. Karen Steinberg<\/a>, a psychologist at the UConn Health Center, explains how laughter can actually help us feel better.<\/p>\n Watch the broadcast ><\/a> Follow\u00a0the UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Health Center experts are interviewed about laughter as medicine; blood pressure and brain decline; the future of stem cells; helping families access mental health treatment; and more.<\/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-75858","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":"2026-04-29 07:14:07","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\/75858","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=75858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88305,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75858\/revisions\/88305"}],"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=75858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75858"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=75858"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=75858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe Enormous Cost of Dementia Care<\/h2>\n
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\nUConn Researchers Look at Blood Pressure Link to Brain Decline<\/h2>\n
\nDempsey Hospital Makes Progress Reducing Double CT Scans<\/h2>\n
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