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Skin Cancer Awareness and Prevention<\/h2>\n
WDRC-AM & FM, WWCO-AM, WMMW-AM, WSNG-AM, July 28, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n
Dr. Philip Kerr<\/a>, UConn Health Center dermatologist, joins “Your Town” with Jerry Kristafer to discuss skin cancer and how to protect yourself in the summer sun.<\/p>\n Listen to the broadcast > WDRC-AM, July 25, 2013<\/i> Listen to the broadcast > NBC Connecticut, July 22, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Dr. Meryem Tuncel-Kara<\/a>, a hypertension expert at the UConn Health Center, talks about a \u201csilent killer\u201d \u2013 high blood pressure \u2013 that impacts millions of people and can be very difficult to control. But there are things you can do \u2013 lifestyle changes \u2013 that can help prevent hypertension.<\/p>\n Watch the broadcast ><\/a> CT News Junkie, July 22, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Dr. Carolyn Drazinic<\/a>, assistant professor at the UConn School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Psychiatry and president of the Connecticut Psychiatric Society, said many psychiatrists in the state were surprised that the disorder was added to the list of ailments that qualify someone to use medical marijuana. <\/b><\/p>\n Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n Hartford Courant, July 16, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Dr. David C. Steffens<\/a>, chair of the psychiatry department at the University of Connecticut, said it’s not just the amount of care that Alzheimer’s patients need but the nature of the disease itself that brings so much stress to caregivers.<\/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":" Health Center experts are interviewed about skin cancer, a stomach bug, hypertension, medical marijuana, Alzheimer\u2019s, and more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":53726,"comment_status":"closed","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-81194","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":"2026-05-02 18:43:55","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\/81194","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=81194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88273,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81194\/revisions\/88273"}],"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=81194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81194"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=81194"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=81194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Update on Cyclosporiasis (Stomach Bug)<\/h2>\n
\nDr. Rebecca Andrews<\/a>, UConn Health Center primary care physician, joins “The Mary Jones Show” on The Talk of Connecticut<\/a> to discuss the recent outbreak of the parasitic infection cyclosporiasis.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Managing Hypertension<\/h2>\n
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Individuals with PTSD Top List of Those Registered for Medical Marijuana<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Alzheimer\u2019s Care and the \u2018Secondary Patient\u2019<\/h2>\n
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