Tag: research
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Report calls for statewide smoking ban to protect Kentucky youth
A new “Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children” report says children and babies who live in communities without smoking bans are “subject to immense dangers from secondhand smoke,” and calls for the...
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Baptist Health joins national network that combines data to help patients get the best cancer care
Baptist Health has joined a national network that facilitates the sharing of health information with other hospitals in its network to improve and personalize cancer treatments, all while keeping its...
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People with dementia benefit from singing and listening to music
Image: www.medicalnewstoday.com People with dementia improve both cognitively and emotionally when their caregivers engage them regularly with singing and listening to music, according to a study published in the Journal...
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National study and Paducah Sun story illustrate value of local Kynectors, who would be far away if exchange is abolished
Gwyn Artz, left, of Lexington talked with Miriam Fordham about signing up for health insurance through Kynect during the opening of a storefront in Lexington’s Fayette Mall. (Herald-Leader photo) Read...
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New cases of diabetes decrease, but experts continue to call it an epidemic in Kentucky and the U.S.
The number of new diabetes cases in adults has significantly decreased in Kentucky and the U.S., reversing a trend, according to a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report,...
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Appalachian smoking cessation studies suggest changes in tactics, such as being blunter with pregnant smokers
Two long-term smoking cessation projects in Appalachia have prompted researchers to change to a more direct approach with pregnant smokers, telling them the risks to their babies, and to look...
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Lung cancer is the deadliest but least researched cancer; do funders consider it self-inflicted? An important question for Ky.
Lung cancer kills more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, and yet it is the least researched, which could be because funders perceive it is a self-inflicted disease...
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Lisa Cassis, vice president for research at UK and a pharmacist by trade, says she became a researcher to help people
University of Kentucky Vice President for Research Lisa Cassis’s motivation to conduct meaningful cardiovascular research comes from having watched her father battle heart disease for nearly 30 years, a UK news release and...
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Talking to teens about sex makes them (especially girls) have safer behavior, here’s expert advice on how to talk about it
As uncomfortable as it may be to talk about safe sex with a teenager, it can have a positive impact, especially for girls, according to a new study published in...
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UK and Wake Forest researchers get $6.4 million to keep developing new therapy for cocaine abuse and overdose
Three professors at the University of Kentucky and one at Wake Forest University have received $6.4 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to keep developing “a promising new...