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UK Professor Receives Distinguished Physician Award
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 11, 2016) – Dr. Thomas Waid, professor in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, received the Distinguished Physician Award from the National Kidney Foundation on March...
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When Do Allergy Shots Become Necessary?
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 12, 2016) — The beauty of spring is upon us, but as lovely as it may be to look at, it can wreak havoc in your nose, throat and eyes. The higher the pollen count, the greater the...
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Clinical Nursing Specialist Student Uses Training to Reduce Patient Stress at...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 12, 2016) — Five weeks at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center seemed like an eternity for bone marrow transplant recipient Earl Harris. Two days after he started the...
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Markey Receives Funding to Improve Community Cancer Education in Eastern...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 13, 2016)— University of Kentucky researchers Robin Vanderpool and Mark Dignan are leading projects funded by the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health...
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UK Partners with HMR to Promote Healthy Weight to Kentuckians and UK Community
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 14, 2016)– Jeanne Bouvier, a retired UK HealthCare nurse of 25 years, didn't know how her weight gain could have happened to her. She thought, "I'm a nurse and should know...
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New Technology Helps Patients Get Better and Stay Well
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 14, 2016) − Every year, tens of thousands of people are hospitalized for various ailments, and each of them require daily in-hospital visits from doctors, nurses, and other health...
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How Medical Students Learn in Swaziland
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 15, 2016) – The Community Faculty Program at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine hosted its 22nd Annual Community Faculty Conference for community faculty, campus...
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UK Celebrates 25 Years of Heart Transplantation
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 15, 2016) − More than 100 patients, families and UK HealthCare staff gathered April 13th to celebrate an important milestone: the 25th anniversary of the first heart transplant at...
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Baptist Health Joins UK HealthCare Organ Failure and Transplant Network
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 15, 2016) ̶ The Baptist Health system recently became a member of the University of Kentucky Organ Failure and Transplant Network (OFTN), a new UK HealthCare initiative focused...
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UK Physician Assistant Students Learn in Swaziland
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 15, 2016) – The Community Faculty Program at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine hosted its 22nd Annual Community Faculty Conference for community faculty, campus...
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Dr. Nikki Stone: Leading UK's Mobile Dental Program to Serve the Children of...
LEXINGTON, Ky. ( April 7, 2016)–When Dr. Daria 'Nikki' Stone, associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, became the director of the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile program in...
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Flying From Chicago is Worth It for This Orofacial Pain Patient
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2016)– After being treated for a crossbite in 1988 Mary Hennessy-Kukla joined the more than 100 million people in the United States who suffer with chronic pain. After...
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UK Student Brigades Serve Ecuador and India with Shoulder to Shoulder Global
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2016) — Shoulder to Shoulder Global (STSG) led 52 University of Kentucky students, faculty, staff and community members in two multidisciplinary health brigade experiences to...
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American Nurses Association President Discusses Shifts in Health Care During...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 20, 2016)— President of the American Nurses Association (ANA) Pam Cipriano will discuss the influential role of nurses at a turning point in the nation’s health care system during...
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De Hoyos Joins Thoracic Oncology Team at Markey
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 21, 2016) – Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Alberto de Hoyos has joined the thoracic oncology team at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center. De Hoyos’s clinical interests...
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Two UK Faculty Help Draft Policy Statement for the American Heart Association
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 21, 2016) − University of Kentucky’s Dr. Larry Goldstein and Donna Arnett, Ph.D., took part in drafting a policy statement that was published in the American Heart Association’s...
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Mindful Eating Helps to Lose Weight — and Keep it Off
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 21, 2016) - Losing weight is difficult, and keeping it off can be even harder. Many people regain the weight because typical weight loss diets involve drastic, unsustainable...
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UK Pharmacy Students Bring Operation Heart to Central and Eastern Kentucky
Lexington, Ky. (April 22, 2016) — Most people think of a pharmacist as someone who counts pills or measures out medicine — more of a behind-the-scenes provider than someone on the front lines of...
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UK Anesthesiologist to Co-Chair International Conference on Opioids
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 25, 2016) - The fifth annual International Conference on Opioids, founded by Dr. Paul Sloan, professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the...
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For Safety, Keep Children Indoors When Mowing the Lawn
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 25, 2016) — Spring is here which means children will begin playing outside more often. With the change in the weather, it also means time to add another chore to the list: mowing...
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