The University of Louisville Division of Geriatrics, a part of the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, will help host a town hall meeting on long-term care on March 21.
The University of Louisville has launched a research trial to study an investigational medical device designed to aid patients with emphysema by shutting off the diseased part of the lung.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have unlocked the metabolic function of the essential enzyme laforin, which opens new pathways to treating the deadly Lafora's Disease.
A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that targeting a key enzyme and its associated metabolic programming may lead to novel drug development to treat lung cancer.
University of Kentucky Department of Computer Science's Brent Seales is on his way to making history, and uncovering it, with revolutionary software and 2,000-year old Herculaneum scrolls.
A new UK program is more than just a win-win situation. Watch how college students are not only reaching out to help those in need but also working to solve the problem of food waste and building community all at once.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a recent economic study found that Kentucky’s “dry” counties, where alcohol sales are banned, have more meth lab seizures per
capita than do the state’s “wet” counties where liquor is legal.
The Wendy L. Novak Diabetes Care Center of the University of Louisville Pediatric Endocrinology Division in the Department of Pediatrics has been named an accredited program with the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
Kentucky's First Lady, along with the Kentucky Cancer Program, the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center and KentuckyOne Health, launched a campaign to raise $1 million for a mobile unit to provide no- or low-cost cancer screenings.
Morris Animal Foundation has awarded a three-year, $155,000 grant to a team of Kentucky and Danish researchers to build a new reference genome sequence for the domestic horse.
Researchers at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center have identified for the first time mutations that destabilize a DNA structure that turns a gene off. The mutations occur at four sites in the hTERT promoter in more than 75 percent of glioblastomas and melanomas.
University of Kentucky researchers have exposed new information about the combined cognitive effects of mild traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder in war veterans.
Directors of the University of Louisville's Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and Micro/Nano Technology Center are among 170 new Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
The UofL Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development program has been notified by its accrediting body, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) that it has resolved its lone issue.
This video feature tells the story of a new initiative helping to battle hunger on the University of Kentucky campus. The program isn't just helping those in need, but offering valuable educational experience to students interested in human nutrition & food insecurity issues.
A team of researchers at the University of Louisville has received a grant from Passport Health Plan to study why Kentucky kids are prescribed psychotropic meds at a rate almost twice the national average.
Cynthia Miller, Ph.D., has won one of just four Outstanding Early Career in Post-Secondary Education Superlative awards from the Kentucky Academy of Science.
The University of Louisville's Longitudinal Standardized Patient Project takes the 50-year practice of using standardized patients in medical schools to a new level by giving students a single SP to see throughout their two-year Introduction to Clinical Medicine course.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Lt. Gov. Crit Luallen have announced an innovative public/private partnership between Community Dental, a nonprofit of Kentucky, and University of Louisville Pediatrics to provide a multidisciplinary health care home for Kentucky children enrolled in the Medicaid program.
A group of physiologists led by University of Kentucky's Tim McClintock, PhD, have identified the receptors activated by two odors using a new method that tracks responses to smells in live mice.
A recent study by Allison Scott, assistant professor in the UK College of Communication and Information, examines how the quality of communication among family members and care givers impacts end-of-life decisions. Scott says family communication holds a great deal of potential for improving end-of-life health care.
A landmark study published today in the journal Science by an international group of scientists, led by the laboratory of Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice chair of the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky, reports that HIV/AIDS drugs that have been used for the last 30 years could be repurposed to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), as well as other inflammatory disorders, because of a previously undiscovered intrinsic and inflammatory activity those drugs possess.
The St. Baldrick's Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to the University of Louisville's Department of Pediatrics Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation to enable more children with cancer have access to clinical trials.
A recent study conducted by University of Louisville professor Judith Danovitch explores the psychological power cartoon characters play in consumer purchasing during the holiday season. The study shows that low quality or broken logoed toys were picked by children over new, high-quality, non-logoed toys up to 74% of the time.
One year after his 'New England Journal of Medicine' article notes the hardship faced by people with no medical insurance, Michael Stillman writes another showing the success of the Affordable Care Act in Kentucky.
The University of Louisville School of Medicine will serve as the nation’s pilot site for training future physicians on the unique health care concerns and issues encountered by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming or born with differences of sex development.
An international team of researchers has identified a protein that turns a person’s immune system against itself in a form of kidney disease called membranous nephropathy (MN). The findings are published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A multi-institutional study has defined and established criteria for a new neurological disease closely resembling Alzheimer’s disease called primary age-related tauopathy (PART). Patients with PART develop cognitive impairment that can be indistinguishable from Alzheimer’s disease, but they lack amyloid plaques. Awareness of this neurological disease will help doctors diagnose and develop more effective treatments for patients with different types of memory impairment.
The vice chair and professor of surgery at the University of Louisville has been named President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons, the largest organization of surgeons in the world with more than 79,000 members.
The Association of American Medical Colleges has awarded its 2014 Shining Star of Community Achievement award to UofL's innovative program to increase the number of physicians in medically underserved areas.