School of Medicine
Advanced Lung Cancer Knocked Out in Clinical Trial
Advanced lung cancer patient Michel Gueret had a life expectancy of less than a year at the time of diagnosis. After participating in an immunotherapy clinical trial at UConn Health, he now has no more lung cancer symptoms.
December 13, 2016 | Lauren Woods
Meet 6 Physicians Now Seeing Patients at UConn Health
Experts in multiple sclerosis, psychiatry, women’s health, infectious diseases, and nephrology have joined the clinical faculty in recent months. Dr. Matthew Tremblay is a neurologist who specializes in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology. He directs the Department of Neurology’s multiple sclerosis clinic. In addition to multiple sclerosis, he has expertise in the management of neuromyelitis optica, […]
December 8, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (CLAS)
Lifestyle Medicine Patient: Success When So Many Others Fail
Melissa Dzierlatka is beating the odds - after losing more than 160 pounds she's kept the weight off more than a year later and is no longer borderline diabetic.
December 7, 2016 | Carolyn Pennington and Ethan Giorgetti
Stroke Survivor Strums Guitar Again
When a stroke limited Bruce Cleinman’s use of his left arm and hand, one of his biggest concerns was he wouldn’t be able to play guitar anymore. But he followed the recovery plan of the UConn Health Stroke Program, customized for him. In a matter of weeks he was strumming his guitar again.
December 7, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco & Frank Barton
Come in from the Cold to View New Winter Art Exhibit at UConn Health
The art exhibits of Patricia Corbett and Katherine Schwartz will be shown at the Celeste LeWitt Gallery at UConn Health until March 9, 2017.
December 6, 2016 | Carolyn Pennington
Living and Working with a Neurological Disease
Peter Frost of the Department of Pharmacy sheds light on what it’s like living and working with a neurological condition such as epilepsy, which can often at times be invisible to his fellow employees and the outside world.
December 1, 2016 | Lauren Woods
Divining Tumor Markers from DNA
UConn Health researchers are part of a cutting-edge initiative to discover cancer markers known as neoantigens, that will further the search for cancer immunotherapies.
December 1, 2016 | Kim Krieger
Florida Woman Heals at UConn Health, Stays in Connecticut
UConn Health physicians were able to diagnose and correct in two months the severe stomach pain a Florida woman's previous physicians could not figure out for nearly a year.
November 30, 2016 | Christopher DeFrancesco '95 (CLAS)
Mind Over Bladder: The Brain-Organ Connection
UConn Health's Dr. Phillip P. Smith is conducting research on the brain's connection with bladder function as we age.
November 30, 2016 | Lauren Woods
Mind Over Bladder: Research Explores the Brain-Organ Connection
UConn Health’s Dr. Phillip P. Smith has been awarded a large research grant award called the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging from the NIH’s National Institute on Aging.
November 29, 2016 | Lauren Woods