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BEARCATS/Health: Keys to Caring for Our Aging Population
BEARCATS/Health: Gut Health for Wellness
BEARCATS/Health: Keys to Caring for Our Aging Population
BEARCATS/Health: Gut Health for Wellness
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The American Society of Nephrology hosted its annual Kidney Week 2025 meeting recently in Houston.
Prakash Gudsoorkar, MD, a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine associate professor of clinical in the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine, shared his perspectives with MedCentral on three studies presented during the meeting.
Families attended the 25th annual Fluency Friday workshop on Nov. 14 on the University of Cincinnati's medical campus, where speech pathologists emphasized to children and their parents that "it's okay to stutter." The annual event is now called Cincinnati STRIDE.
The University of Cincinnati's LaTrice Montgomery and Chris Tuell were featured in a Local 12 report discussing the nuances and difficulty in setting safe driving limits for THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
Led by University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s researchers, new trial results published DATE in The Lancet Psychiatry found the drug metformin can help manage weight gain in youth taking medication to treat bipolar disorder and should be adopted as a standard of care treatment.
Two in five people will be told they have diabetes during their lifetime. And people who have diabetes are twice as likely to develop heart disease. One of the deadliest dangers? Diabetic cardiomyopathy. But groundbreaking University of Cincinnati research hopes to stop and even reverse the damage before it’s too late.
An app that uses an AI model to read a single-lead ECG from a smartwatch can detect structural heart disease, researchers reported at the 2025 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association. Although the technology requires further validation, researchers said it could help improve the identification of patients with heart failure, valvular conditions and left ventricular hypertrophy before they become symptomatic, which could improve the prognosis for people with these conditions.
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Jennifer Theiss
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College of Medicine
