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Passion for Emergency Medicine Earns UK Student National Scholarship
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 29, 2014) — A career in emergency medicine requires a commitment to helping patients in the most critical situations. For demonstrating her passion for this field, University of...
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UK Arts in HealthCare Presents Chinese New Year Celebration
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 29, 2014) --The UK Arts in HealthCare program will team with music therapists, dancers, singers and musicians to present a Chinese New Year celebration at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1,...
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AMA President to Provide College of Pharmacy Advocacy Day Lecture
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 29, 2014) — Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, president of the American Medical Association, will provide a special guest lecture as part of the Kentucky Alliance of Pharmacy Students (KAPS)...
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Manchester Recognized as Leader in Smoke-free Air and Public Health
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 30, 2014) − The Cumberland Valley District Health Department in conjunction with the Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy (KCSP) at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing,...
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UK SEC Scholar-Athlete Looks for Answers to Unanswered Questions
Video produced by UK Research CommunicationsLEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 4, 2014) — Chelsea Oswald, the University of Kentucky's 2013 SEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, discovered a love for running...
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Go Tobacco-free Program Assists Other College Campuses Adopt Policies
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 5, 2014) − The Kentucky Center for Smoke-free Policy (KCSP) at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing is launching a special initiative, Go Tobacco-free, that will provide...
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UK Physician Assistant Student Featured in Forbes
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 6, 2014) − Glenn L. Means III, a University of Kentucky College of Health SciencesPhysician Assistant Studies student, was one of three graduate students selected for an eight-week...
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UK Program Delivers Community, Care and Education for Women with High-Risk...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 6, 2014) - With pillows propped behind their backs and workbooks in hand, a group of women in their third trimesters of pregnancy gathered at UK HealthCare's Polk Dalton Clinic on...
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CROWD Lets You Give Back Through Participation in Clinical Research
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 12, 2014) -- Many Kentuckians join the crowds of fans at University of Kentucky athletic events. The UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) hopes that just as...
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New UK Study Shows Potential for Targeting Aggressive Breast Cancers
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 10, 2014)— A new study led by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researcher Peter Zhou shows that targeting Twist, a nuclear protein that is an accelerant of the...
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Teens Give Encouraging Words, Facts About Youth Suicide During Awareness Event
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 11, 2014) - Kentucky teens will exchange cards, flowers and chocolates with their sweethearts this week in a display of Valentine's Day bliss. But a staggering number of Kentucky's...
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Health Care Providers Join the Ky. REC Inaugural Patient-Centered Medical...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 11, 2015)– Ten health care provider organizations in Kentucky attended the Kentucky Regional Extension Center (REC) Inaugural Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Cohort Kick-Off...
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UK Arts in HealthCare, Lexington Philharmonic Bring World-Class Music to...
Video by UK Public Relations and Marketing LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 13, 2014) -- Internationally renowned classical guitarist named Pablo Sainz Villegas is coming to Lexington for a performance with the...
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Markey Now Offers Unique Varian Truebeam Radiation Therapy
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 13, 2014)— The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has become one of the first cancer centers in the country to offer the latest model of the Varian TrueBeam for its...
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Tobacco-free 'Take Action! Ambassadors' Take Health to Heart at UK
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 14, 2014) – February is Heart Month and the University of Kentucky takes health to heart through its Tobacco-free policy in effect for over four years. What's new on campus is the...
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UK Doctor Still Makes House Calls
This story appeared in the February 13 edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader. Reprinted with permission.by Mary Meehan: (859) 231-3261. Twitter: @bgmoms. Blog: Bluegrassmoms.com....
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Plugging Into iPods: Is It Putting Your Hearing at Risk?
Column by Anne Olson, audiologist and associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences, Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders This column was featured in the...
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UK HealthCare Physicians Named to Best Doctors in America Listing for 2014
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 20, 2014) -- More than 100 UK HealthCare physicians affiliated with University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children's Hospital and UK HealthCare Good...
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Bensalem-Owen Named Fellow of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 20, 2014) -- Dr. Meriem Bensalem-Owen, associate professor of neurology, anatomy and neurobiology and director of UK HealthCare's Epilepsy Program, has been named a fellow of the...
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Dealing with the Unforeseen “Side Effects” of Cancer
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 20, 2014)– How would you react if you’d just been told you have cancer? “You freak out,” said 57-year-old Tony Stone, a current patient at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer...
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