University of Kentucky professor Glen Mays provides commentary on the Health Security Preparedness Index, which measures the ability of the U.S. government to respond to disasters.
Will the scrutiny surrounding recent shootings in Texas, Louisiana and Minnesota cause local law enforcement to scale back their policing efforts? Nationally recognized criminal justice expert Justin Nix has studied the "Ferguson Effect" and is available for comment.
Researchers at UK’s Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) are always on the lookout for abundant and sustainable materials that can be converted into value-added products. In this case, CAER has partnered with Wilderness Trail Distillery in Danville, Kentucky to convert stillage, a by-product left over during the bourbon production process, into materials that can be used in batteries, capacitors and water filtration systems.
Harvard Law Fellow and University of Louisville law professor Dr.Laura McNeal is a nationally-recognized expert in effective police training techniques and can provide unique insight, as well as real-life, tangible solutions to both the law enforcement and minority communities in the wake of the recent shootings.
A free, open access medical education website launched by the University of Louisville Department of Medicine last year has added Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit for some lectures it offers.
Michael Lovelace, M.B.A., a fourth-year student at the UofL School of Medicine, has developed an award-winning digital tool to help young physicians make sound financial decisions as part of AAFP's Family Medicine Leads (FML) Emerging Leader Institute.
A Louisville patient is the first to be enrolled in a national clinical trial to test a new treatment for patients who have suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm. The trial, based at the University of Louisville under principal investigator Robert F. James, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at UofL, will include eight other medical centers in the United States. The ASTROH study is a phase II, randomized clinical trial to determine whether a continuous 14-day, low-dose intravenous infusion of heparin is safe and effective in patients with ruptured brain aneurysms.
Norton Healthcare has awarded grants to six researchers at the University of Louisville to further pediatric research in a variety of areas.
NASA will celebrate July 4th by firing the rockets of its Juno mission spacecraft, sending the probe into Jupiter’s orbit 534 million miles from Earth. NASA-funded researcher and current UofL dynamic meteorology professor Tim Dowling, says the mission will use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to reveal answers to questions that have puzzled astronomers for more than 400 years.
On July 18, the University of Louisville Foundation will begin construction on a new, 170,000-square-foot pediatric medical office building. The building will be designed to house all of the UofL Physicians pediatric specialty clinical practices.
UofL has earned reaccreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs.
The Tarzan legend was created more than 100 years ago, yet audiences worldwide are still drawn to the iconic literary legend. University of Louisville Tarzan archivist explains the lasting appeal of the "ape man."
In a surprising about-face, researchers have determined that a protocol providing physical therapy to ICU patients did not shorten hospital length of stay. The study, which is the largest to-date, reversed the findings from earlier pilot studies.
A group of researchers from the University of Louisville, Japan and Austria is the first to identify a protein, AF1q, associated with multiple myeloma and a condition that occurs in approximately one-fourth of very aggressive multiple myeloma, extramedullary disease or EMD.
Dr. Stephen Duncan provides advice to the general population about treating and preventing hip and knee joint pain.
Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky names inaugural scholars
Susan Galandiuk, M.D., professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville, has been named editor-in-chief of Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, the scientific journal of The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
UofL dental researcher explores microbiological mechanisms as World Health Organization urges for a day of abstinence from tobacco use on May 31
Known as a definitive source for health care providers, "The Vaccine Handbook" is now available as an app.
An international team of scientists, including the University of Kentucky's Renbin Yan, is solving one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in galaxy evolution.
Discover the personal connection that motivates UK College of Education Professor Lisa Ruble each and every day as she works to help students with autism succeed in school … and beyond.
New mobile clinics operated by the North American Mission Board saw their first patients Friday, May 20, at the Kentucky Racing Health Services Center, a nonprofit clinic run by the University of Louisville School of Nursing that serves the backside racetrack workers at Churchill Downs.
Jessica Eaton and Mackenzie Flynn will delay their fourth year of medical school to conduct medical research in Malawi and Kenya. This is the first time two students in the same medical school have received Fulbright-Fogarty fellowships in a single year.
The University of Louisville has expanded its oncology research strength through the addition of approximately 33,000 human tissue samples and specimens.
A school has joined a landmark health research project at the University of Louisville designed to use nature to tackle the health impact of busy city streets
Research from the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences was able to demonstrate a positive correlation between fitness and blood flow to areas of the brain where the hallmark tangles and plaques of Alzheimer’s disease pathology are usually first detected, indicating a possibility that regular exercise could stave off AD symptoms.
A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers and published in Nature shows a potential new biological marker for the development of obesity and a possible target for obesity prevention and treatment.
The UofL chapter of M4M is unique in that the students spend time with the patients before the race, and often run for the same patient year after year. The relationships with their buddies give the students a more intimate understanding of how cancer and life-threatening diseases affect the children and their families, adding a personal dimension to their training to become physicians.
As part of a UofL pediatric dentistry fund-raising event at the annual St. James Court Art Show, members of the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity student chapter use dental plaster materials to practice techniques learned in the lab and clinic. But, instead of making molds of teeth, they create custom-made 3D plaster casts of hands, feet and faces.
While the social science community has understood the potential impact of a racial achievement gap for decades, its root causes and mechanisms have not been clearly defined. The unique data collected and the uncommon analysis presented by Morris and Perry postulate that racially disparate and exclusionary discipline (suspension and expulsion) in the schools is a critical, understudied factor in racial differences in educational achievement and success later in life. Research suggests that African-American students are three times as likely as white students to be academically suspended. Nationwide, one in six African-American students in public schools have been suspended at least once. In a comparison of suspended and never-suspended students, the suspended group fell nearly five grade levels behind in only two years.
Twenty years ago, there were only two species of mouse lemurs. Today, including the newly-discovered species, mouse lemurs comprise 24 species. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, 94 percent of lemurs are threatened with extinction.
As states relaxed laws related to fireworks sales during the past decade, emergency doctors saw an increase in both the number and severity of fireworks-related injuries among children, according to new research being presented at the Pediatrics Academic Societies 2016 Meeting.
National Nurses Week is May 6-12, and two of Louisville, Kentucky’s prominent nursing leaders are urging for a more highly educated nursing workforce in Kentucky.
"Election Law Stories," edited by election law expert Joshua Douglas and Eugene D. Mazo, offers a deep-dive into the most significant cases in election law across the nation.
The group, building on their 2012 landmark discovery, has shown that a third species of African spiny mouse can completely close four millimeter ear holes and regenerate missing tissue. This new study suggests that genetic factors underlie variation in regenerative ability.
Charles R. Woods Jr., M.D., has been elected the incoming chair of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Epidemiology, Public Health and Evidence. His one-year term begins Nov. 1.
An assistant professor of medicine in the University of Louisville's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, won first place in the category of “Young Investigator Awards in Cardiovascular Health Outcomes and Population Genetics” from the American College of Cardiology earlier this month.
Faced with a pathogen, important signaling chemicals within plant cells travel different routes to inform the plant to turn on its defense mechanisms, according to a recent University of Kentucky study.
A protein previously known for its role in kidney function, adaptor protein CD2AP, also plays a significant role in the nervous system, and is associated with a type of neural growth known as collateral sprouting.
Health-care professionals often are aware of larger social issues facing their patients in disadvantaged communities but feel powerless as individual practitioners to change these health disparities. The University of Louisville’s new Health and Social Justice Scholars Program is accepting applicants who will be trained to work with other professionals in communities to bring about changes to benefit underserved and disadvantaged populations.
University of Kentucky Astrophysicist Isaac Shlosman and collaborators have revealed details of how supermassive black holes formed 13 billion years ago, and it's not from normal (stellar size) black holes growing to supermassive proportions.
The latest advances in the use of ultrasound in the operating theater will be shared in a daylong workshop on May 14 sponsored by the University of Louisville.
Toni Ganzel, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, has been appointed to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the governing body that accredits medical education programs throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Lua Technologies and the University of Louisville School of Dentistry today announced that the UofL School of Dentistry has adopted Lua, a cloud-based, secure text messaging system, to better coordinate patient care between nearly 1,000 faculty, staff and students.
The two University of Kentucky linguists created ancient languages of more than 40,000 words with established grammar, syntax and structure to breath life into the recently released video game Far Cry Primal, by Ubisoft. The professors say the game and its languages are important to the academic world because 1) it's the first time Proto-Indo-European has been used as a living language since it was spoken thousands of year ago and 2) it's the first time any video game creator included a constructed, prehistoric language in the game.
John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky professor and higher education expert, examines why "play for pay" is not in a college athlete's best interest.
University of Kentucky's Madhu Menon and collaborators have discovered a new material that could advance digital technology and open a new frontier in 2D materials beyond graphene. Truly flat and extremely stable, the material is made up of light, inexpensive and earth abundant elements.
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