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Health Center experts are interviewed about snow-related injuries, whooping cough, sickle cell disease, light pollution and more.
Health Center in the News
Tips on Preventing Snow Clean Up Injuries
Aired on FOX CT, March 7, 2013
Dr. Matthew Ledford, emergency medicine physician, is interviewed on FOX CT about the most common weather-related injuries and shares tips to avoid getting hurt as you clean up the snow.
Dr. Paul Skolnik, infectious disease expert at the UConn Health Center, tells WFSB –TV that the number of cases of whooping cough has doubled in Connecticut between 2011 and 2012.
Turning It Down: Cities Combat Light Pollution by Going Dim
NPR’s “All Things Considered” aired March 3, 2013
Celeste Headlee’s NPR News report on the serious health implications associated with exposure to artificial light at night includes comment from cancer epidemiologist Richard Stevens.
The UConn Health Center is expanding. It’s a big, multi-year, multi-million dollar project. In an effort to break it down for our readers, we are offering several snapshots of what it all means.