A new study co-led by Hsin-Hsiung Tai, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Kentucky, suggests that a key prostaglandin (PG) metabolic enzyme shows promise as a drug target to help tissue regeneration and repair, particularly after bone marrow transplantation and tissue injuries.
In clinical trials, a new drug class known as PCSK9 Inhibitors reduced bad cholesterol markedly and is expected to be approved by the FDA this summer. An expert in lipid management discusses some of the barriers to its use.
Experts from around the country will join faculty experts from the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center, a part of KentuckyOne Health, to look at the latest evidence-based medicine in treating metastatic cancer of the central nervous system.
A single dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervarix appears to be as effective in preventing certain HPV infections as three doses, the currently recommended course of vaccination. That is the conclusion of a study published today in The Lancet Oncology and co-authored by Diane Harper, M.D., M.P.H., the Rowntree Endowed Chair and professor in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
A head and neck cancer specialist has been named chair of the new Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisville.
The dean of the School of Medicine and a chair and professor in the College of Education and Human Development will receive Tower Awards in October, highlighting their accomplishments as women role models.
The quest to digitally uncover writings inside a 2,000-year old scroll continues with a new computer software tool built at the University of Kentucky, the "Volume Cartographer," and a trip to Paris, France with four UK students.
Early diagnosis and intervention is key to assuring the best possible health outcome. In 2-week old Bransen Robert's case, a new program at the University of Kentucky called The Blue Angels made this early intervention possible.
Scientists have found that stage IIIb to IV melanoma patients treated with a modified cold sore (herpes) virus had improved survival. The results of the findings were published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Two divisions in the Department of Surgery -- otolaryngology and communicative disorders -- have been combined into one new department at the University of Louisville.
Brooke Estep has Down Syndrome, but it doesn't stop her from living fully, including participating in research at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging that hopes to unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's and other age-related dementias
UL LLC, a global safety science organization, and the University of Louisville are launching a 3D printing training facility - the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center (UL AMCC) - designed to enhance additive manufacturing competency and empower professionals through cutting-edge training with advanced technology.
Four UofL MBA students combined their business savvy with cutting-edge medical technology to take home top honors at the international lobal Venture Labs Investment competition. The team presented a marketing plan for OneScope, an airway management device that can be used to safely intubate patients in ambulances, helicopters, hospitals and surgery centers.
What happens when a community is faced with the disturbing possibility that their children could be exposed to harmful chemicals every day? They call in experts like Kelly Pennell, UK professor of civil engineering, whose research can shed light on a common, but potentially dangerous issue.
The severity of climate change as a global issue and whether humans are causing climate shifts have been hotly debated among individuals and politicians in recent years. At the next Beer with a Scientist event, a UofL scientist will discuss the science behind the issue.
University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry Assistant Professor Jason DeRouchey has received a prestigious five-year, $691,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.
The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center recently launched a new iPhone app featuring a searchable database of the open clinical trials at Markey. The app gives Markey patients and their treatment teams an easier way of identifying the clinical trials currently offered that might be beneficial for the patient’s treatment plans.
Researchers at the University of Louisville have detailed a critical connection associated with a major environmental cause of silicosis and a form of lung cancer. Their study is reported in today’s Nature Communications.
Researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing are using an electronic salt spoon to help families transition to low-sodium diets.
People who have survived cancer and their loved ones and caregivers will again gather at the University of Louisville for celebration, inspiration and support at the annual Cancer Survivors Celebration. The event is set for 3 p.m., Thursday, April 30, at UofL’s Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research building, 505 S. Hancock St. i
Since the 1960s, the number six has been commonly used to describe how many people are impacted by each suicide. Julie Cerel, associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Social Work, says that's just not true, and her research has produced a startling statistic.
The Kentucky Racing Health Services Center, a nurse practitioner-managed health clinic, has been providing free or low-cost health care to horse racing workers at Louisville's Churchill Downs racetrack for 10 years.
NIH grant matched with another $3.1 million to commercialize research.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have been attempting to understand the cascade of events following mild head injury that may lead to an increased risk for developing a progressive degenerative brain disease, and their new study, which was published in the current issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, shows initial promise for a treatment that might interrupt the process that links the two conditions.
Marion Cox was experiencing the expected decline in the potency of his medications for Parkinson's disease when his doctor offered him a spot in a clinical trial for a new drug delivery system. Now Marion has returned to farming his 800 acres -- including operating heavy equipment -- with a small pump in a pouch under his shirt that delivers precision doses of levidopa to control his PD symptoms with minimal side effects.
The University of Louisville will host a one-day symposium designed to provide the public, physicians, nurses and health professionals up-to-date information on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women. The 2015 Louisville Symposium on Heart Disease in Women: Case Studies from the Heart of Louisville, will take place Saturday, May 16, and is open to the public.
Medical residents are testing the effectiveness of a text message alert system to improve patient compliance with the recommended vaccination schedule.
Why are there so few breweries in the U.S. South? A University of Louisville economics professor who has researched the issue says the reason can be traced to strong, anti-alcohol religious beliefs permeating throughout the Deep South.
Children with neurologic or neurodevelopmental disorders (NNDDs) are at increased risk of complications from influenza. Although the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recognized NNDDs as high-risk conditions for influenza complications since 2005, little is known about influenza vaccination practices in this population.
UofL faculty expertise led to the school’s selection as Kentucky’s headquarters - known as a Local Performance Site (LPS) - within the Region IV Public Health Training Center (PHTC) based at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
Saving future nursing students nearly $5,000 is one benefit of the University of Louisville School of Nursing’s revamped RN-to-BSN online program.
The National Institute on Aging has awarded Barbara Polivka, Ph.D., Shirley B. Powers Endowed Chair in Nursing, University of Louisville School of Nursing, and her interdisciplinary team at $2.3 million grant to study asthma in older adults.
The Kentucky Cancer Program at the University of Louisville has launched a new version of its cancer resource guide, "Pathfinder," and moved it online.
The University of Louisville Department of Medicine has launched what is believed to be the first open-access internal medicine education online community in the United States, LouisvilleLectures.org.
Gavin Arteel, Ph.D., will address the societal and biological effects of alcohol on March 18.
As the anniversary of the most fatal landslide in the history of the continental United States approaches, we are reminded of the importance of evaluating geologic hazards and communicating that information to communities that may be at risk, including Kentucky, where landslides were reported in in Muhlenburg and Caldwell counties this month.
Citing a critical need for a forum dedicated solely to mechanical assisted circulation, Dr. Maya Guglin of the Gill Heart Institute at the University of Kentucky has launched The VAD Journal.
The University of Louisville is the host institution for the National Association of Minority Medical Educators' 2015 College Student Development Program and Student Recruitment Fair, Sept. 19 in Louisville.
A University of Louisville psychologist will provide techniques to cope with stress in a free program on March 5.
An accomplished social work faculty member has been named the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Health and Optimal Aging at the University of Louisville.
This video features offers an inside look at the U.S. Lab where Brent Seales develops digital imaging software to unlock the mysteries of these ancient European scrolls.
They may not all be as sinister as Kevin Spacey or as inappropriate as Jennifer Anniston in the Hollywood blockbuster “Horrible Bosses,” but recent research conducted by three University of Louisville professors highlighted that up to 36 percent of American workers – and possibly higher – work for a “horrible” or “dysfunctional” boss.
Scientists have been searching for missing oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also called the BP oil spill, since 2010, and now Kevin Yeager, professor in the UK Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and his research colleagues may have solved the mystery.
University of Kentucky neonatologist Henrietta Bada recently published a pilot study examining the effectiveness of a non-opiate drug clonidine to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Maya Guglin, MD, PhD, Director of Mechanical Assisted Circulation at the University of Kentucky's Gill Heart Institute, has launched The VAD Journal, a publication focused exclusively on mechanical assisted circulation.
Drs. Darryl Kaelin and Steve Williams have been tapped to fill two endowed positions in the University of Louisville Department of Neurological Surgery
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