What to Know About Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) and Amputation Prevention
Mark D. Fleming, M.D., vascular surgeon and the director of Vascular Lab at UK HealthCare, discusses peripheral arterial disease in this week's health column.
View ArticleMiss USA Elle Smith Talks Cervical Cancer Awareness with UK Markey Cancer...
As UK College of Communication and Information alum Elle Smith prepares for a year of advocacy ahead as Miss USA, she spoke with experts from the UK Markey Cancer Center about the importance of...
View Article'Team Jared' Honors KCH Patient After Cancer Battle
Kim Chitwood honors her son's legacy with help from the EKU men's basketball team.
View ArticleThrough the Lens: Appalachian Youth Document Cancer in Rural Kentucky
A new photo exhibit in the Healthy Kentucky Research Building features the work of 25 high school and UK undergraduate students from the UK Markey Cancer Center’s Appalachian Career Training in...
View ArticleUK Helps Baby with Rare Condition Fight Hard to Beat the Odds
In 2019, roughly 20,000 babies were diagnosed with Trisomy 18 before birth. Few were born alive. Even fewer made it to their first birthday. Now 2 years old, Wylie Duerson is an exception.
View ArticleLearn About 'The Elements of Life' at Everything is Science
Michelle Pitts, a pharmaceutical sciences postdoctoral fellow, discusses the Everything is Science community event in this week's health column.
View ArticleWith a National Shortage of Donor Blood, UK Physicians Ask for Donations
Between the COVID-19 pandemic and many bouts of bad weather, UK HealthCare and hospital systems across the country are experiencing an unprecedented shortage of donor blood.
View ArticleUK Neurosurgeon and Patient Featured on Recent Episode of Access Health
This week’s episode focuses on Parkinson’s disease and a treatment known as deep brain stimulation (DBS). To highlight DBS as a treatment option the episode shares the story of UK HealthCare patient...
View ArticleAnchor TVs and Furniture to Prevent Injury
Ahead of the Super Bowl, Sherri Hannan, Coordinator for Safe Kids Fayette County discusses anchoring furniture to keep small children safe.
View ArticleUK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Director Appointed to National Council
Linda J. Van Eldik, Ph.D., director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky and Dr. E. Vernon Smith and Eloise C. Smith Alzheimer's Research Endowed Chair, has been...
View ArticleHeart, Hope, Healing: Quick Action, CPR Helps UK Patient Defy the Odds
When Frankfort resident Andy Combs stopped breathing in his sleep, his wife, Julie, sprang into action. Her quick thinking and determination gave Andy a fighting chance to survive the deadliest form...
View ArticleWhat to do After a Heart Failure Diagnosis
Andrew R. Kolodziej, M.D., cardiologist and medical director of the heart transplant program at UK HealthCare, discusses heart failure in this week's health column.
View Article‘We Found It in Time’ – Serious Diagnosis Leads to 'Creative' Treatment for...
Young Tyson England was sick and getting sicker. Knowing their family's history of liver disease, his mom, Brooke, brought him to Kentucky Children's Hospital Pediatric Fatty Liver Clinic. There, they...
View ArticleHistoric, Multi-Million Dollar Gift Invests in Expansion of UK Markey Cancer...
At the UK Board of Trustees Healthcare Committee meeting on Feb. 17, UK HealthCare announced a historic $10 million gift from Central Bank to support expanded patient care at the UK Markey Cancer...
View ArticleHeart, Hope, Healing: CPR Gave Him a Chance, UK Cardiologists Got Him Back...
Hands-only CPR gave Frankfort resident Andy Combs a fighting chance to survive a massive heart attack. But after miraculously waking up from a two-week coma, he had another extraordinary hurdle to...
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