Jeff Small, associate vice president for research administration and finance at the University of Connecticut Medical Center, said the center has been holding \u201cfire drills\u201d to cope with a potential closure of the federal government since 2011, when a shutdown loomed because of partisan fighting in Congress over the budget and debt limit.<\/p>\n
Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n Nutrition plays a key role in skin health, says Meagen McCusker<\/a>, associate professor of dermatology at the University of Connecticut Health Center.<\/p>\n Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n News 8 WTNH-TV, Sept. 16, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n Many agree the patient and physician relationship is a critical key to improving health care. Overall, it starts right in that exam room with the patient and doctor on the same page.\u00a0Proactive patients like Chuck Barshaw are more the exception than the rule. “My mom died of a heart attack and my dad had a warning of a heart attack,” said Barshaw. Knowing his family history helps to keep him on the same page with Dr. Jason Ryan<\/a>, head of the UConn Heart Failure Center.<\/p>\n Watch the video ><\/a> WTIC Radio, Sept.15, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n Dr. William White<\/a>, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hypertension in the Calhoun Cardiology Center, joins Bill Pearse on WTIC NewsTalk 1080’s “At Home in Connecticut” to discuss hypertension, including a research study focusing on how blood pressure management can affect cognitive decline in elderly patients.<\/p>\n Listen to the broadcast > WTIC Radio, Sept. 15, 2013 Listen to the broadcast > Reuters Health, Sept. 5, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n It is “premature” to conclude that the brain changes Dr. Lebedev and his team linked to antidepressant use were caused by medication, Dr. David C. Steffens<\/a>, who chairs the department of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center, told Reuters Health.<\/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 nutrition and skin health; doctor-patient relationships; hypertension and seniors; 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-83832","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":"2026-05-08 19:23:09","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\/83832","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=83832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88265,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83832\/revisions\/88265"}],"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=83832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83832"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=83832"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=83832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The Best Foods for Clear Skin<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Empowering Patient\/Physician Relationships<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Studying Hypertension in Older Patients<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Alzheimer\u2019s Update<\/h2>\n
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\nDr. George Kuchel<\/a>, director of the UConn Center on Aging, joins a conversation on WTIC’s “Face Connecticut” with Sam Gingerella about Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>MRI Study Finds Depression-Related Brain Changes in Dementia Patients<\/h2>\n
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