Clik here to view.
Traffic Exiting UK HealthCare Parking Garage to be Temporarily Rerouted
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 4, 2016) — Beginning Friday, Aug. 5, Conn Terrace between South Limestone and the UK HealthCare garage exit will be temporarily closed. The closure is necessary to allow for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Health and Safety Professionals Aren’t Immune to Mental Health Conditions,...
LEXINGTON, Ky.(Aug. 8, 2016)— Health care professionals and emergency responders confront the brutality of injury and illness on a daily basis. Too often we assume these heroes can block out the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Former Olympic Team Doctor Serving Athletes at UK Sports Medicine
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 10, 2016)– Every four years, we gather around the television and spend two weeks watching a lifetimes worth of work play out. For the hundreds of athletes that make up Team USA,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Calipari, Johnson Speak at Annual Southern Orthopaedic Association Meeting
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 10, 2016)– This year’s Southern Orthopaedic Association meeting brought a lot of the Big Blue Nation to gator country. The annual meeting gives orthopaedic and sports medicine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK College of Dentistry starts Oral Medicine Externship
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 10, 2016)– The University of Kentucky College of Dentistry now provides students the opportunity to participate in an oral medicine externship. The unique opportunity blends...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK Researchers Use Imaging Technique to Predict Dementia Status in Adults...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 10, 2016)– Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging found that magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), a noninvasive imaging technique, might help...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Family Manages Challenges of Diabetes with Help from Barnstable Brown...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 11, 2016)– A natural instinct for parents is to protect their children by keeping them healthy and safe; but what do you do as a parent when not just one, but both your children...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hildebrandt Honored at ACS Belles & Beaus Ball
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 11, 2016)– The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Dr. Gerhard Hildebrandt was honored at the American Cancer Society (ACS) Belles & Beaus Ball held Aug. 6....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Make Sure to Dispose of Unused and Expired Medications
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 16, 2016) — When was the last time you cleaned out your medicine cabinet? Unlike a messy refrigerator there’s nothing in your medicine cabinet to send a scented reminder you need...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Life Breathed into Lung Cancer Study Initiated 15 Years Ago
Video by UK REVEAL Research Media. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 17, 2016)– In the late 1990s, University of Kentucky Professor Douglas Andres found that mutations in a protein known as RIT1 could initiate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Treatments Available for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 22, 2016) — One in 26 people will develop epilepsy – a chronic disease characterized by unpredictable seizures — in their lifetime. A seizure is a sudden surge of electrical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK Named One of "Top Hospitals with Great Oncology Programs" by Becker's...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 26, 2016) – The University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital is one of the nation’s “100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs” in Becker’s Hospital...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Physical Therapy is Best Choice for Pain Management
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 29, 2016) — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sales of prescription opioids have quadrupled in the United States since 1999, even though there has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Receives $8.25 Million to Continue...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 1, 2016) —The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) has been awarded an $8.25 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK Sports Medicine to Provide Team Physicians for Georgetown College
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 1, 2016)– A new partnership with Georgetown College Athletics will provide sports teams at Georgetown College with team physicians from the University of Kentucky Department of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK Clinical Nursing Specialists Elevate Patient Care and Assume Leadership...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 6, 2016)— The clinical nurse specialist (CNS) track at the UK College of Nursing trains nursing professionals to act as experts, leaders and transformers of health systems in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teach Teens That Driving is a Privilege, Not an Entitlement
This column originally appeared in the Sept. 4 edition of the Lexington Herald-Leader. LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 6, 2016) — In the formative years of adolescence, teens test their limits and push their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK Employee, Cancer Survivor Faces Second Birthday as an Inpatient
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 7, 2016)– On his 45th birthday, University of Kentucky employee Jimmy Thomas got some dire news. After weeks of feeling under the weather, Thomas was diagnosed with leukemia on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If Your Rest is Disrupted Because of Sleep Apnea, Get Medical Help
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 13, 2016) – The following column ran in the Lexington Herald-Leader Sunday, Sept., 11, 2016. Unbearable snoring is often the reason sleep apnea is diagnosed. Sleep apnea occurs in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK Researchers Urge Integration of Medication-assisted Opioid Treatment Into...
LEXINGTON, Ky.(Sept. 13, 2016) — Individuals who inject drugs are at risk of endocarditis, a bacterial infection that enters the bloodstream and clusters on the valves of the heart. The infection...
View Article