09/08/08:  UC College of Nursing to Introduce New Curriculum on Alcohol Use Disorders
A new set of Web-based curriculum modules on alcohol abuse and alcoholism is on track for classroom use at UC in fall 2009 and at nursing schools across the country.

09/04/08:  Bisphenol A Linked to Metabolic Syndrome in Humans
New UC research implicates the primary chemical used to produce hard plastics—bisphenol A—as a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome and its consequences.

09/04/08:  Neurocritical Care Fellowship Earns Prestigious Accreditation
The United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties has accredited the neurocritical care fellowship program at the Neuroscience Institute at the UC and University Hospital.

09/03/08:  Festivities Mark Official Opening of CARE/Crawley Building
The University of Cincinnati is ushering in a new era of discovery with the grand opening of the Center for Academic and Research Excellence (CARE)/Crawley Building, an architecturally distinct landmark on the medical campus.

09/02/08:  Surgical Technique Halts Cell Loss, Parkinson's Researchers Find
Deep brain stimulation, a surgical technique often viewed as a last resort for people with Parkinson’s disease, halts the progression of dopamine-cell loss in animal models, according to preliminary research by scientists at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati and University Hospital.

09/02/08:  Oncologists Use Lung Cancer Vaccine to Personalize Care
UC oncologists are involved in one of the largest international cancer vaccine clinical trials to date aimed at reducing recurrence and improving life expectancy among early-stage lung cancer survivors.

08/29/08:  UC to Host Environmental Health Town Hall Meeting Sept. 15
The UC Center for Environmental Genetics and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences invite residents of Greater Cincinnati to discuss their concerns about the environment at a town hall meeting: "Your Home, Your Health, Your Voice."

08/28/08:  UC Team Studies Link Between Parkinson's and Depression
A patient who receives a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease might become depressed, and understandably so. But does the depression then exacerbate the progression of Parkinson’s? That’s one of the questions a team of UC researchers is studying, with the help of a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

08/28/08:  UC HEALTH LINE: Working Sick: Do or Don't?
Nancy Elder, MD, associate professor in the department of family medicine at UC, says that although working sick may have been deemed a no-no in the past, it’s a reality, and people often don’t have a choice.

08/26/08:  Research Examines Variations of Rare Lung Disease
UC scientists are recruiting LAM patients to participate in a new research study that examines why symptoms of the disease are different in certain subgroups of people with the goal of finding more successful therapies.