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Gill Heart Institute Selected for Major Clinical Trial for Bioabsorbable Stent
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 24, 2015) -- The Gill Heart Institute at the University of Kentucky is participating in a multi-center clinical trial of a new medical device that has the potential to improve the...
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Quit and Win Contest Winners Announced at Reception
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 26, 2015) - University of Kentucky employees who successfully quit smoking and/or using tobacco for 30 days as part of UK’s Quit and Win contest were honored at a reception at the...
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UK Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Aggressive Cancer Metastasis
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 25, 2015)– The National Cancer Institute recently awarded a two-year, $357,743 grant to University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers to study the role of a certain...
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Winter Expo Offers Interactive, Real-Time Instruction in Neuroscience and...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 26, 2015) -- Most symposia are highly intellectual affairs, offering lectures and poster sessions designed to bring the latest information on a designated topic to attendees. The...
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Grand Rounds Session Explores Psychiatric Case of Artist Known as Sybil
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 26, 2015)— The body of artwork left behind by Shirley Mason offers visual clues into the famous psychiatric patient's creative mind and her struggle with dissociative identity...
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Blog: Kentucky Needs Smoke-free Act
The following is a Blog by Janie Heath, dean of the University of Kentucky College of Nursing The science is clear. Tobacco smoke is deadly -- to smokers and to all of us who share the air. The truth...
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Though Extreme Cold May Be Over, Frostbite Can Still Be an Issue
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 2, 2015) -- After this record-setting stretch of extreme cold weather, most of us are ready for those warmer temperatures. Compared to what we've dealt with recently, 28 degrees...
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UK Transplant Patient, Navigator to Advocate for Kidney Awareness on Capitol...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 2, 2015)– University of Kentucky Transplant Center Patient Navigator Elaine Milem, also a transplant patient at UK, has been selected by the American Kidney Fund (AKF) to...
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Coach Matthew Mitchell to Headline Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Dinner
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 3, 2015) -- University of Kentucky women's basketball coach Matthew Mitchell will headline the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Foundation Dinner celebrating...
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Difficulty Swallowing? It Might Be Dysphagia
LEXINGTON, Ky (March 9, 2015) -- Almost everyone has at one time experienced the sensation of something stuck in his or her throat -- after swallowing a pill, perhaps, or choking on food. But recurrent...
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KNI Physician Helps Patients with Parkinson's Using Newly-Approved Drug
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 9, 2015) -- To date, a cure for Parkinson's disease remains elusive for the more than 50,000 Americans diagnosed yearly, despite decades of intensive study. But a newly approved...
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UK's Vanderford featured in Nature
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 9, 2015)– Nathan Vanderford, assistant director for research at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and assistant professor in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer...
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UK Scientist Awarded $3 Million NIH Grant to Study Therapy for Sepsis
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 10, 2015) -- Xiang-An Li, Ph.D., of the University of Kentucky Saha Cardiovascular Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, has been awarded a $3 million grant from the...
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Smith Named UK College of Pharmacy Interim Dean
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 10, 2015) -- Kelly M. Smith, a faculty member in the College’s Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science and associate dean of Academic and Student Affairs, has been named...
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Shriners, Patients Break Ground for New Medical Center Located at University...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 10, 2015) -- Shriners from throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana joined local Shriners Hospital for Children – Lexington representatives, Shriners...
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UK HealthCare to Hold Nurse Recruitment Open House
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 11, 2015)– Providing exceptional care to patients and families is one of the things the nurses at UK HealthCare do best. To ensure the tradition of excellence, UK HealthCare will...
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Buckingham Family Keeps Memory of Child Alive by Reconnecting with NICU Staff
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 12, 2015)— On the morning of Feb. 4 at Kentucky Children's Hospital, nurses guided incubators carrying fragile newborns down the center hallway of the neonatal intensive care unit...
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College of Public Health to Host Occupational Safety Meeting
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 12, 2015)— The Central Appalachian Regional Education and Research Center, housed at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, will host the fourth annual meeting of...
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UK Pediatric Palliative Care Provider Chosen to Lead AAHPM Group
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 13, 2015)— UK Health Care pediatrician Dr. Lindsay B. Ragsdale was recently elected as chair of the Pediatric Special Interest Group for the American Academy of Hospice and...
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Five Benefits of Consulting with a PA for Primary Care
This column first appeared in the March 15 edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader. By Virginia Valentin and Hannah Anderson LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 16, 2015) -- When finding a home base for health care,...
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