Tag: University of Kentucky
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6th annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit in Louisville Oct. 7
The 6th Annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit, “Health Literacy in the Age of the Affordable Care Act,” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 7 at the Founder’s Union Building on the University...
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Ky. to get $940,000 more a year to fight prescription drug abuse and heroin; top drug-abuse fighter coming to Ky. for workshop
The federal government will give Kentucky another $940,000 a year for the next four years to fight prescription drug abuse and heroin. The money is part of a new program...
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UK hospital, troubled by deaths in pediatric heart program, says it will partner with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
The University of Kentucky hospital, which suspended its pediatric heart program three years ago after five of its patients died, has signed a letter of intent to form a partnership...
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Kentucky will get money to increase colon cancer screenings in Louisville and Appalachia, which lag behind recent success
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky will receive about $2.6 million in federal money over five years to help fight colon cancer by encouraging people to be screened for...
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Improving Kentuckians’ health will require education, fighting poverty; poor and less educated have poorer health, study shows
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Increased access to insurance is just one part of the equation to improve the health of Kentuckians, improving poverty and increasing education levels are...
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UK doctors use remote ultrasound program to care for at-risk expectant mothers in rural areas
Sonographer Laura Bates moved a camera in Manchesterwhile a doctor at UK talked with patient Mary Sizemore.(Lexington Herald-Leader photo by Andrea Noell) “Care often is best delivered close to home,” Dr. John O’Brien,...
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New UK public-health dean, a Ky. native, says she will focus on state’s health disparities through partnerships and research
Donna Arnett Donna Arnett, associate dean at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Public Health and former president of the American Heart Association, has been named dean of the University...
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Biotech firm buys UK professor’s anti-overdose nasal spray
Pharmacy Professor Daniel Wermeling at the University of Kentucky invented a nasal spray to fight heroin overdoses, and a biotech firm has bought the product, which may be on the market...
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Retired UK professor Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven elected first female chair of World Medical Association
Retired University of Kentucky professor Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, who was the president of the American Medical Association in 2013-14, was elected the first female chair of the World Medical...
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UK research project will create strategies to improve respiratory health for those living in Appalachian Kentucky
Public health researchers at the University of Kentucky will undertake a five-year long research project called “Community-Engaged Research and Action to Reduce Respiratory Disease in Appalachia,” Sarah Noble writes in a...