The dean of the School of Medicine and a chair and professor in the College of Education and Human Development will receive Tower Awards in October, highlighting their accomplishments as women role models.
Scientists have found that stage IIIb to IV melanoma patients treated with a modified cold sore (herpes) virus had improved survival. The results of the findings were published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Two divisions in the Department of Surgery -- otolaryngology and communicative disorders -- have been combined into one new department at the University of Louisville.
UL LLC, a global safety science organization, and the University of Louisville are launching a 3D printing training facility - the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center (UL AMCC) - designed to enhance additive manufacturing competency and empower professionals through cutting-edge training with advanced technology.
Four UofL MBA students combined their business savvy with cutting-edge medical technology to take home top honors at the international lobal Venture Labs Investment competition. The team presented a marketing plan for OneScope, an airway management device that can be used to safely intubate patients in ambulances, helicopters, hospitals and surgery centers.
The severity of climate change as a global issue and whether humans are causing climate shifts have been hotly debated among individuals and politicians in recent years. At the next Beer with a Scientist event, a UofL scientist will discuss the science behind the issue.
Researchers at the University of Louisville have detailed a critical connection associated with a major environmental cause of silicosis and a form of lung cancer. Their study is reported in today’s Nature Communications.
People who have survived cancer and their loved ones and caregivers will again gather at the University of Louisville for celebration, inspiration and support at the annual Cancer Survivors Celebration. The event is set for 3 p.m., Thursday, April 30, at UofL’s Kosair Charities Clinical and Translational Research building, 505 S. Hancock St. i
The Kentucky Racing Health Services Center, a nurse practitioner-managed health clinic, has been providing free or low-cost health care to horse racing workers at Louisville's Churchill Downs racetrack for 10 years.
NIH grant matched with another $3.1 million to commercialize research.
The University of Louisville will host a one-day symposium designed to provide the public, physicians, nurses and health professionals up-to-date information on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women. The 2015 Louisville Symposium on Heart Disease in Women: Case Studies from the Heart of Louisville, will take place Saturday, May 16, and is open to the public.
Why are there so few breweries in the U.S. South? A University of Louisville economics professor who has researched the issue says the reason can be traced to strong, anti-alcohol religious beliefs permeating throughout the Deep South.
Children with neurologic or neurodevelopmental disorders (NNDDs) are at increased risk of complications from influenza. Although the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recognized NNDDs as high-risk conditions for influenza complications since 2005, little is known about influenza vaccination practices in this population.
UofL faculty expertise led to the school’s selection as Kentucky’s headquarters - known as a Local Performance Site (LPS) - within the Region IV Public Health Training Center (PHTC) based at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
Saving future nursing students nearly $5,000 is one benefit of the University of Louisville School of Nursing’s revamped RN-to-BSN online program.
The National Institute on Aging has awarded Barbara Polivka, Ph.D., Shirley B. Powers Endowed Chair in Nursing, University of Louisville School of Nursing, and her interdisciplinary team at $2.3 million grant to study asthma in older adults.
The Kentucky Cancer Program at the University of Louisville has launched a new version of its cancer resource guide, "Pathfinder," and moved it online.
The University of Louisville Department of Medicine has launched what is believed to be the first open-access internal medicine education online community in the United States, LouisvilleLectures.org.
Gavin Arteel, Ph.D., will address the societal and biological effects of alcohol on March 18.
The University of Louisville is the host institution for the National Association of Minority Medical Educators' 2015 College Student Development Program and Student Recruitment Fair, Sept. 19 in Louisville.
A University of Louisville psychologist will provide techniques to cope with stress in a free program on March 5.
An accomplished social work faculty member has been named the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Health and Optimal Aging at the University of Louisville.
They may not all be as sinister as Kevin Spacey or as inappropriate as Jennifer Anniston in the Hollywood blockbuster “Horrible Bosses,” but recent research conducted by three University of Louisville professors highlighted that up to 36 percent of American workers – and possibly higher – work for a “horrible” or “dysfunctional” boss.
Drs. Darryl Kaelin and Steve Williams have been tapped to fill two endowed positions in the University of Louisville Department of Neurological Surgery
The University of Louisville Division of Geriatrics, a part of the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, will help host a town hall meeting on long-term care on March 21.
The University of Louisville has launched a research trial to study an investigational medical device designed to aid patients with emphysema by shutting off the diseased part of the lung.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a recent economic study found that Kentucky’s “dry” counties, where alcohol sales are banned, have more meth lab seizures per capita than do the state’s “wet” counties where liquor is legal.
The Wendy L. Novak Diabetes Care Center of the University of Louisville Pediatric Endocrinology Division in the Department of Pediatrics has been named an accredited program with the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
Kentucky's First Lady, along with the Kentucky Cancer Program, the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center and KentuckyOne Health, launched a campaign to raise $1 million for a mobile unit to provide no- or low-cost cancer screenings.
Morris Animal Foundation has awarded a three-year, $155,000 grant to a team of Kentucky and Danish researchers to build a new reference genome sequence for the domestic horse.
Researchers at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center have identified for the first time mutations that destabilize a DNA structure that turns a gene off. The mutations occur at four sites in the hTERT promoter in more than 75 percent of glioblastomas and melanomas.
UofL Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has won $3,959,800 over 50 years to support a variety of research in eye diseases and conditions.
Directors of the University of Louisville's Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and Micro/Nano Technology Center are among 170 new Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
The UofL Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development program has been notified by its accrediting body, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) that it has resolved its lone issue.
A team of researchers at the University of Louisville has received a grant from Passport Health Plan to study why Kentucky kids are prescribed psychotropic meds at a rate almost twice the national average.
Cynthia Miller, Ph.D., has won one of just four Outstanding Early Career in Post-Secondary Education Superlative awards from the Kentucky Academy of Science.
The University of Louisville's Longitudinal Standardized Patient Project takes the 50-year practice of using standardized patients in medical schools to a new level by giving students a single SP to see throughout their two-year Introduction to Clinical Medicine course.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Lt. Gov. Crit Luallen have announced an innovative public/private partnership between Community Dental, a nonprofit of Kentucky, and University of Louisville Pediatrics to provide a multidisciplinary health care home for Kentucky children enrolled in the Medicaid program.
Victor Dzau, M.D., will discuss "Molecular Approaches to Cardiac Regeneration" on Dec. 10 at the University of Louisville.
The St. Baldrick's Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to the University of Louisville's Department of Pediatrics Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation to enable more children with cancer have access to clinical trials.
A recent study conducted by University of Louisville professor Judith Danovitch explores the psychological power cartoon characters play in consumer purchasing during the holiday season. The study shows that low quality or broken logoed toys were picked by children over new, high-quality, non-logoed toys up to 74% of the time.
Art to Beat Cancer benefits the University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center.
One year after his 'New England Journal of Medicine' article notes the hardship faced by people with no medical insurance, Michael Stillman writes another showing the success of the Affordable Care Act in Kentucky.
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