Young Patients Learn There are No Limits with UK Baseball and Softball
The annual No Limits Baseball and Softball Camps, hosted by Shriners Hospital for Children, was a little different this year. With their recent move to the University of Kentucky medical campus on...
View ArticleUK Otolaryngology Residents Win National Academic Quiz Bowl
Medical residents from the University of Kentucky Department of Otolaryngology took first in the 2017 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Academic Quiz Bowl at the...
View ArticleDiscuss Risks and Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Relief with Your Physician
Chronic pain is often treated with opioid medications but caution must be exercised due to risk of side effects and overdose. Dr. Kristy Deep, associate professor of Internal Medicine at the UK...
View ArticleUK's BREATHE Team Hosts Kickoff for Tobacco-free Ambassadors Partnership...
Members of the University of Kentucky’s BREATHE team, representing the UK College of Nursing and UK College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, hosted a kickoff for the...
View ArticleMarkey Physicians First to Perform Unique Procedure for Ovarian Cancer
Physicians at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center are the first to perform a unique procedure to treat a rare and persistent type of ovarian cancer.
View ArticleA Flu Vaccine May Protect Your Heart, Too
A pre-season flu shot is a good precaution against the influenza virus but it may also be protective of people who are at high risk of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Susan Smyth, medical director of the...
View ArticleVIDEO: A Homecoming for New UK HealthCare Leader
Dr. Mark Newman is coming home to his native Kentucky to lead UK HealthCare. Discover what this homecoming of sorts means to Dr. Newman and why teamwork is so important to the western Kentucky native.
View ArticleAnnual Walk to Remember Set for Oct. 1 at The Arboretum
On Oct. 1, UK HealthCare’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Labor and Delivery Unit will host the Walk to Remember at 4 p.m. at The Arboretum at the University of Kentucky.
View ArticleUK-Authored Study Confirms Pelvic Radiation as Standard of Care for...
In a new phase III trial report from the National Clinical Trial Network group, NRG Oncology, recurrence-free and overall survival rates for women with stage I-II high-risk endometrial cancer were not...
View ArticleUK Researchers Seek to Identify Ways to Relieve Post-Chemotherapy Cognitive...
Many cancer survivors experience devastating cognitive impairment following chemotherapy. Researchers at UK are trying to identify strategies to relieve these symptoms.
View ArticleHereditary Pancreatitis: A Painful Disease Affecting Many Kentuckians
Pancreatitis is a major health problem that can be caused by outside factors, but it can also be hereditary. Dr. George Fuchs, pediatric gastroenterologist at the Kentucky Children's Hospital...
View ArticleDental Students Help Survivors 'Strut Their Smiles' During Domestic Violence...
Strut Your Smile is an opportunity for UK Dentistry students and the community to give back. Proceeds will got to support victims of domestic violence.
View ArticleDiscuss Risks and Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Relief with Your Physician
Chronic pain is often treated with opioid medications but caution must be exercised due to risk of side effects and overdose. Dr. Kristy Deep, associate professor of Internal Medicine at the UK...
View ArticleBlind Equestrian Forms Lifelong Partnership with UK HealthCare to Meet the...
Alexis Johnson was born with a rare eye disease and is legally blind. A lifelong partnership with UK's Advanced Eye Care has not only helped Johnson live with the disease, but thrive and pursue her...
View ArticleSanders-Brown Awarded Grant to Study Alzheimer's Prevention Drug
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five year, $2.88 million grant to a researcher at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to study a drug's potential to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
View ArticleMarkey's Blackburn Earns NIH New Innovator Award for Cancer Research
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Researcher Jessica Blackburn has earned a prestigious National Institutes of Health's New Innovator Award, a grant totaling $1.5 million over five years to...
View ArticleSanders-Brown Markesbery Symposium Focuses on Why Some People Don't Get...
The 7th annual Markesbery Symposium on Aging and Dementia features national experts on the epidemiology of aging and dementia research.
View ArticleBarnstable Brown Diabetes Center Announces Expansion to Turfland Thanks to...
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto, UK Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Mark F. Newman, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, Dr. John Fowlkes, director of the Barnstable Brown Diabetes...
View ArticleUK’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center Celebrates Expansion of Clinical...
UK HealthCare’s Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center celebrated a significant milestone in its 10-year history with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new clinic expansion at Turfland and recognition of a...
View ArticleThe Sanders-Brown Markesbery Symposium Focuses on Dementia Prevention
Typically, experts focus on who gets dementia and why, but why some people stay intellectually sharp into their 90's will be the topic at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging's Markesbery Symposium in...
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