UofL dental school grads return home to serve rural Kentucky with a little help from some friends The Appalachian Dental Loan Forgiveness Program supports graduates with $100,000 each for a two-year commitment to practice in the underserved region
As girls growing up in rural Kentucky, it was a an easy decision for Emily Knight and Jerrica Norvell to return to the communities...
UofL research: Fireworks-related burns requiring hospital stays skyrocket among kids New research shows loosening U.S. laws that let people buy pyrotechnics at younger ages is tied to increased incidence and severity of fireworks-related burns in children
As states relaxed laws related to fireworks sales during the past decade, emergency doctors saw an increase in both the number of fireworks-related injuries...
Nursing professor receives statewide award for excellence
Marianne Hutti, PhD, APRN, an educator who relishes the small ways she has helped students succeed over the years, has received a major accolade:...
Annual Mother’s Day Mammograms program expands to include colon cancer screening
An annual program to provide women with low-cost mammograms in celebration of Mother’s Day has expanded to include colon cancer screening for both sexes.
Mother’s...
Inaugural suicide prevention walk raises more than triple its goal
A class assignment brought a new advocacy project to the UofL campus on Sunday, April 17, and raised well over its projected goal in...
UofL pediatrician named chair of national committee
Charles R. Woods Jr., MD, has been elected the incoming chair of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Section on...
GHN Wellness Center celebrates three years of sustained growth Other, larger universities have used the model as a benchmark for their own employee wellness programs
It’s been three years since the Get Healthy Now Wellness Center underwent its $1.3 million renovation/expansion and relocation initiative, made possible by partnerships with...
New player revealed in nerve growth process Role of adaptor protein CD2AP in neuron sprouting discovered by UofL researchers could lead to therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, stroke recovery and spinal cord injury
University of Louisville researchers have discovered that a protein previously known for its role in kidney function also plays a significant role in the...
UofL study shows home IV antibiotics unnecessary for children with complicated pneumonia Bacterial pneumonia with empyema in children successfully treated with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and early transition to oral antibiotics
Treating children with pneumonia complicated by infected fluid in the chest (called empyema) can take longer than other infectious diseases, and typically requires surgical...
Physicians at James Graham Brown Cancer Center to test new treatment option for recurrent brain cancer JGBCC currently only site in region for the clinical trial aimed at halting tumor growth by limiting its blood supply
For patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), existing chemotherapies have offered limited survival benefit and new therapies are clearly needed. Eric Burton, M.D., is conducting a...