The University of Louisville School of Medicine will serve as the nation’s pilot site for training future physicians on the unique health care concerns and issues encountered by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming or born with differences of sex development.
An international team of researchers has identified a protein that turns a person’s immune system against itself in a form of kidney disease called membranous nephropathy (MN). The findings are published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The vice chair and professor of surgery at the University of Louisville has been named President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons, the largest organization of surgeons in the world with more than 79,000 members.
The Association of American Medical Colleges has awarded its 2014 Shining Star of Community Achievement award to UofL's innovative program to increase the number of physicians in medically underserved areas.
A third-year medical student at the University of Louisville has led a group of researchers from five universities in determining that bedside ultrasound is cost-effective in pediatric emergency room care.
A new institute at the University of Louisville will study all facets of the aging process
A West Virginia University/Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center researcher has been named to head the bone marrow transplantation division at UofL's James Graham Brown Cancer Center.
A $9 million renovation of the University of Louisville School of Medicine's 40-year-old instructional building is celebrated Sept. 22.
A newly FDA-approved treatment for patients with advanced or inoperable melanoma who are no longer responding to other drugs is now available to patients at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center, a part of KentuckyOne Health.
University of Louisville School of Dentistry, along with an international team of dental and medical radiologists and dental specialists discuss the implications of the Image Gently campaign in an article published in Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology.
A University of Louisville medical student who has bachelor's and master's degrees in bioengineering has won a $10,000 scholarship from the American Medical Association Foundation.
Research underway at the Louisville Medical Center will be the focus of the 19th annual Research!Louisville.
Autism cases aren't up just because mental health professionals are overdiagnosing the disorder. A study by two researchers using market theory shows the disorder really is more prevalent.
UofL economist Steve Gohmann is making himself available to comment on the sale of GE Appliances, which was announced September 8th.
The cancer center at the University of Louisville Health Sciences Campus has earned continued accreditation for its radiology oncology department from the nation's leading accrediting organization.
Thanks to support from the Helmsley Trust, more kids like Emmalie Smith, 4, from Brighton, Mich., will have a chance to move after suffering spinal cord injury.
An experimental regimen of once-weekly breast irradiation following lumpectomy provides more convenience to patients at a lower cost, results in better completion rates of prescribed radiation treatment, and produces cosmetic outcomes comparable to the current standard of daily radiation.
A 10-member expert panel chaired by a University of Louisville researcher has developed the American Heart Association's first-ever policy statement on e-cigarettes, calling for more research and regulation of the products.
An ophthalmology researcher at the University of Louisville has been named chair of the Neurotransporters, Receptors and Calcium Signaling Study Section of the NIH’s Center for Scientific Review.
Dr. Laura McNeal, assistant law professor at the University of Louisville and legal fellow at Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School is available to offer legal insight surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.
The Ebola outbreak is raising some sticky ethical considerations. For example, who gets the experimental drug and what populations should be subject to quarantines?
Researchers from the University of Louisville will lead an international effort to utilize tobacco plants to develop a gel containing a specific protein that will prevent the transmission of HIV. The project is being funded by a five-year, $14.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
General Electric Appliances and the University of Louisville have partnered on a micro-factory aimed at bringing innovative products to market more quickly.
An expert in alcohol abuse, nutrition, and cytokine research and hepatic drug metabolism has been tapped to lead the research efforts of the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center.
A program to make learning about science as accessible as having a beer with friends examines the "incurable" condition of aging July 16 at a Louisville brewpub.
A new book, spearheaded by University of Louisville faculty, addresses population health in the context of systems, and how leadership, policy and technological innovation affect the quality of health and wellness of a nation.
A multi-center study has found that telemedicine is effective in screening for the potentially blinding disease retinopathy of prematurity in newborns.
The $10 million gift to the University of Louisville is one of the largest in the institution's history.
Researchers at the University of Louisville have discovered a group of molecules that help cause apoptosis in lung cancer cells.
The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) has awarded the University of Louisville Hospital Nurse Residency Program a five-year accreditation, the maximum term.
PFK-158, a small molecule therapeutic candidate that inactivates a novel cancer metabolism target never before examined in human clinical trials, is now being studied in clinical trials for patients with solid tumors such as melanoma, lung, colon, breast and pancreatic cancer.
Nominations for the 2014 University of Louisville Gold Standard Award for Optimal Aging will be accepted until 5 p.m., July 15
The symposium will present information on the latest research and best practices in care for people age 65 and older.
In an article published today in Journal of Transcultural Nursing, University of Louisville School of Nursing assistant professor Valerie Lander McCarthy, PhD and her team explore whether a broader definition of successful aging could positively influence research, clinical practice and health policy.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, has provided a three-year, $5.5 million grant to the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville.
The University of Louisville Institute of Molecular Cardiology and the director of UofL's James Graham Brown Cancer Center win awards recognizing excellence in health care.
The 2014 Louisville Symposium on Heart Disease in Women, the first of what is planned to be an annual event, will be held Saturday, June 28.
Each year, 27 percent of patients on Medicare previously hospitalized with heart failure are readmitted within 30 days. A new trial at the University of Louisville seeks to decrease the chance of readmission.
Darrell A. Griffith has been named the new associate vice president for health affairs/finance and administration for the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center.
Ambulatory centers could offer a viable way to keep pace with the growing demand for outpatient surgeries, University of Louisville health economist finds
The University of Louisville is expanding its borders, as the School of Public Health and Information Sciences (SPHIS) prepares to offer the Master of Public Health (MPH) in Lahore, Pakistan, beginning this fall.
Two of the hottest acts making names for themselves in country music have just been added to the lineup of performers at The Julep Ball, May 2 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky.
M. Cynthia Logsdon, PhD, APRN, FAAN, professor, University of Louisville School of Nursing, has been selected as one of 100 Alumni Legacy Leaders by Indiana University School of Nursing during its Centennial year.
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