Tag: medical school
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State senator says U of L doctors used Medicaid funds to pay themselves $4.8 million in bonuses, seeks more oversight
State Sen. Tim Shaughnessy has questioned a $30 million transfer of surplus Medicaid funds to Passport Health Plan board members in 2008 and 2009. Shaughnessy, a Louisville Democrat, says doctors...
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U of L prof earns $11.8 million grant renewal; has helped glean $100 million in federal grants in 17 years
A University of Louisville researcher has been awarded a $12.8 million grant to keep his adult stem cell project going. The funds are from the National Institutes of Health and...
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3 universites and federal agency join to improve oral health in Appalachian Kentucky
With money from the Appalachian Regional Commission and some of their own, three very different Kentucky universities will collaborate “to enhance sustainable, collaborative dental health education and care” in the...
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Markey Cancer Center at UK says its patients have higher survival rates than those treated elsewhere in Ky. and the nation
“Patients at the University of Kentucky‘s Markey Cancer Center who have certain types of cancer have higher rates of survival than patients with the same cancers treated elsewhere in the...
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Free conference on Alzheimer’s in Louisville Sept. 17
A Washington-based geriatric researcher will join University of Louisville researchers and clinicians a free conference examining Alzheimer’s disease from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Crowne...
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Planned merger of Louisville hospitals grows more controversial; C-J devotes considerable space to it and Beshear steps in
UPDATE, July 27, 3:43 p.m.: Gov. Steve Beshear issued a statement saying “It is clear there are growing concerns within the community about issues related to the hospital’s future level...
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UK finally wins $20 million grant to translate medical research into action at the bedside and in the field; now ‘a member of the club’
The University of Kentucky announced Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health had awarded it $20 million over five years to help move research discoveries from the laboratory to the...
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Partnership between UK and Norton extended, further defined
They still haven’t agreed on how to spell “health care,” and don’t do it as we do, but the partnership announced last November between UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare to...
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Rural Training Track programs get more health professionals to rural areas, but live ‘on the edge’ of funding and personnel
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News With the Obama administration offering more funding to improve rural health care, Rural Training Track programs to steer medical students to rural areas are hoping...
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Construction, expansion at UK HealthCare boosting Lexington’s economy; total payroll now exceeds 8,700
The construction and expansion at UK HealthCare, which comprises the University of Kentucky‘s College of Medicine and Albert B. Chandler Hospital, is giving Lexington a fiscal boost in an otherwise...