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KCH Developing Program to Help Kentucky Pediatricians Handle Cases of Child...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 14, 2015)— Pediatricians routinely examine bangs, bruises and bone fractures — the standard acute injuries resulting from normal childhood activity. But in rare cases, a...
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UK College of Nursing Professor Honored for Contributions to Self-Care Research
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 16, 2015)— University of Kentucky College of Nursing professor Debra Moser was chosen as the recipient of the 2015 President’s Award from the Friends of the National Institute of...
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Double Play: Gill Heart Institute Saves 27 Year-Old Identical Twins
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 19, 2015) — Jon Wes and Gardner Adams share a lot. Both have a profound love for baseball. Both are in phenomenal physical condition. And as identical twins, they share the same...
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Four UK Faculty Inducted as American Academy of Nursing Fellows
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 19, 2015) — The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) has appointed four leaders from the University of Kentucky College of Nursing and UK HealthCare as 2015 fellows. The honor...
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UK HealthCare Hosts Open House to Recruit New Team Members
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 19, 2015) — UK HealthCare will open its doors to prospective employees on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 4 to 8 p.m. on the ground floor of the Pavilion A Lobby of the UK Chandler...
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Music Sensation 'Time for Three' Plays Free Pop-Up Concerts at UK HealthCare,...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 20, 2015) –Time for Three, a string trio known for defying tradition and reinventing classical music in the contemporary world, will perform four pop-up concerts at UK HealthCare...
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KCH Cardiologists Credit Nurse's Quick Retrieval of AED with Saving Child's Life
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 20, 2015) — The rosy flush of Ethan Abel’s cheeks comforted school nurse Cassandra Artrip as she watched the 10-year-old doze with a plush dog in his arms. “He’s pink and breathing...
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UK Hosting Advances in Heart Failure 2015 Conference
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 21, 2015) – The University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute and UK Transplant Center are hosting the Kentucky Advances in Heart Failure 2015 conference on Saturday, Oct. 24 in...
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Registration Open for Neurogastronomy Symposium
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 22, 2015) — A new science called neurogastronomy explores brain and behavior in the context of food, and the International Society of Neurogastronomy's inaugural symposium will...
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KIPRC Reflects on 20 Years Improving Safety and Health for Kentuckians
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 22, 2015)— The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), a collaboration of the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department for Public Health, commemorates 20...
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Annual 'hEAR the Music' Benefits UK's Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 23, 2015)– For the second year, the University of Kentucky Department of Otolaryngology and the Lexington Hearing and Speech Center, will host Songs for Sound 'hEAR the Music,' an...
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College's New Director of Diversity and Inclusivity is Building a Nursing...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 26, 2015) — UK College of Nursing associate professor Jenna Hatcher explains the distinction between diversity and inclusivity using a party metaphor. Diversity is getting an...
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Patient-Centered Care Helps Overcome Mental Illness and Tobacco Use
This column originally appeared in the Oct. 25 edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 26, 2015) — People diagnosed with a chronic mental illness will die an average of 10 years...
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$1.6 Million Grant to Sanders-Brown Researcher Will Fund Study of...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 27, 2015) — The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has awarded Joe Abisambra, Ph.D., of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging a...
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UK Chandler Hospital Receives National Recognition from the American College...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 27, 2015) — The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital — including surgeries...
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UK, UAB Partner on Clinical Trial of Metformin’s Muscle Effect
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 29, 2015) — The University of Kentucky and University of Alabama at Birmingham are partners on a $2.9 million, five-year National Institute on Aging clinical study to explore how...
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Registration for Neurogastronomy Symposium Closes Tuesday
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 3, 2015) — A new science called neurogastronomy explores brain and behavior in the context of food, and the International Society of Neurogastronomy's inaugural symposium will...
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Breast Milk Has Evolved to Nourish and Protect Infants from Disease Causing...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 3, 2015) — Human and mammalian milk, a key source of early infant nourishment, has evolved as a result of 200 million plus years of Darwinian pressure on mammalian lactation to...
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Second Look Leads to Miraculous Turnaround for NICU Baby
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 4, 2015)— Presley Collins spent the first 12 hours of her life like most newborns — swaddled in blankets and fawned over by family members in a hospital room. On the outside,...
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Caring for Teens at the Core of the UK Stop Youth Suicide Conference
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 5, 2015)— The reasons why a teen might consider, attempt or commit suicide are complex. But according to Dr. Hatim Omar, University of Kentucky professor and chair of the Division...
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