Tag: cardiac care
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Attorney general says UK should hand over records on children’s heart surgeries, which have been suspended pending review
Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that the University of Kentucky hospital violated the state Open Records Act by refusing to give a reporter for the university-owned radio station records...
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Small steps can prevent Kentucky’s No. 1 killer, heart disease
It is now February, which is American Heart Month and a perfect time to remind people that small steps can reduce their risk of heart disease, Kentucky’s No. 1 killer. You...
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Cardiologist: Kentucky needs better way to get heart attack patients to dedicated catheterization centers in time
Because cardiovascular disease kills more Kentuckians than anything else, and because what mostly kills them is a heart attack, and because if you can get help within 90 minutes of...
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Kentucky has the nation’s third highest rate of cardiac disease. Learn more, Sept. 29 is World Heart Day
September 29 is World Heart Day, and, according to the most recent edition of the United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, Kentucky has the third highest percentage of adults with...
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UK medical center is fifth in the nation to be recognized for out-of-body respirator help for babies, children and adults
Because they use extracorporeal (out-of-body) membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, to support patients, the University of Kentucky‘s Albert B. Chandler Hospital and Kentucky Children’s Hospital have been awarded a triple designation from the...
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U of L researcher gets $3.4 million to replicate studies of stem cells for heart treatment
Dr. Roberto Bolli of the University of Louisville has received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to test the validity of several recent studies by replicating them. The studies...
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UK doctors first to perform triple ablation, a special form of cardiac catheterization
Ollie Whitaker of Whitesburg is the first known patient to have undergone triple ablation surgery, in which a catheter is inserted through a patient’s blood vessels to remove a faulty electrical...