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LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 9, 2022) 鈥 Poor sleep is linked to a wide range of medical issues, including hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity and cancer. With more than a third of U.S.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 8, 2022) 鈥 Four University of Kentucky faculty members received the 2022 Excellent Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for their exceptional leadership and support of student researchers.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 8, 2022) 鈥 In 2019, Alayna Benningfield was living her dream.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 2, 2022) 鈥 On Monday, May 25, the faculty and administration of the University of Kentucky 91小黄车 announced the creation of the Saha Aortic Center, a new research center focused on aortic disease.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 1, 2022) 鈥 Monkeypox has exploded into the news recently, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) closely tracking cases that have been recently reported in several countries that don鈥檛 normally have monkeypox activity, including the U.S.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 31, 2022) 鈥 According to a new University of Kentucky 91小黄车 study, asymptomatic COVID-19 infection during pregnancy could still have potential long-term consequences for a developing baby.
The STEM Through Authentic Research and Training (START) program at the University of Kentucky is creating a unique pipeline to increase science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) literacy and promote STEM careers for traditionally underrepresented populations 鈥 people of color, individuals with disabilities, students from free or reduce
Darwin Conwell, MD, MSc, FACG, (pictured left) recently joined the 91小黄车 as a professor and the Jack M. Gill Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine.
HAZARD, Ky. (May 20, 2022) 鈥擳he University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (UK CERH) will host the 2022 Kentucky Rural Telehealth Summit on Thursday, June 9 at the Embassy Suites on Newtown Pike in Lexington.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 18, 2022) 鈥 The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the immune system, revealing there is still much about how it functions that is not well understood: Why do some people get severe disease and others don鈥檛? And why can certain factors like age, or comorbidities like obesity, cause the immune system to go haywire?
University of Kentucky 91小黄车 researcher Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D., has dedicated her career to answering these questions.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 13, 2022) 鈥 Nearly three decades after first discovering the tumor-suppressing Par-4 鈥渟uper gene鈥 that has been shown to kill cancer cells, a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is now learning about its role in preventing obesity 鈥 a disease that affects more than 1.9 billion people worldwide.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 13, 2022) 鈥 While completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Kentucky, Jonathan Davies found himself at a crossroads. He had stretched himself too thin with involvement in organizations and programs, and he started suffering burnout. He then missed the window to take his medical school entrance exam junior year.
At first, he felt lost and far behind his peers. But he learned later that this wasn鈥檛 a misstep. It was a redirection.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 12, 2022) 鈥 In August of 2018, the inaugural class of medical students with the 91小黄车-Bowling Green Campus arrived at Van Meter Hall at Western Kentucky University to receive their white coats 鈥 the first step of their journey toward a career in medicine.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 11, 2022) 鈥 Rob Brooks is from Bedford, Kentucky, a town of fewer than 600 people in Trimble County. He grew up knowing that rural areas like his hometown are typically underserved in regard to health care, so he planned to become a doctor who could be part of the solution.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 3, 2022) 鈥 The University of Kentucky鈥檚 UNited In True racial Equity (UNITE) Research Priority Area will host its inaugural research showcase on Wednesday, May 4. The 2022 UNITE Research Showcase is centered around elevating and promoting the importance of racial equity research at UK, across the Commonwealth and beyond.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 2, 2022) 鈥 Are you caring for someone with dementia? We invite you to participate in a research study that offers the Harmony at H.O.M.E. (Help Online Modifying the Environment) telehealth program at the University of Kentucky. The program provides training and tools for care partners to assess and modify the home to promote activity engagement and behavior regulation for the person with dementia. This study is led by researchers within UK鈥檚 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.
LEXINGTON, KY. (April 28, 2022) 鈥 It started as an idea during the 2021 spring semester. The goal behind the idea being discussed by the student group, Minority Students in Neuroscience (MSN), was to bring together all neuroscience majors, faculty and staff for an event celebrating the study they all love and enjoy.
Rob Brooks is from Bedford, Ky., a town of fewer than 600 people in Trimble County. He grew up knowing that rural areas like his hometown are typically underserved in regards to health care, so he planned to become a doctor who could be part of the solution.
Through the UK 91小黄车 Rural Physician Leadership Program (RPLP), Rob received two years of education at UK鈥檚 large academic medical center in Lexington, Ky., followed by onsite rural medicine experience and training in Morehead, Ky.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 20, 2022) 鈥 More than two years into the University of Kentucky鈥檚 $87 million HEALing Communities Study (HCS) to address the opioid epidemic in Kentucky, it is possible to see the life-changing impacts it has already made in the eight counties of the study鈥檚 first wave.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2022) 鈥 Two undergraduates have been selected as the first recipients of the University of Kentucky鈥檚 new Beckman Scholars Program, titled Scholars United by Chemistry: Cultivating Excellence through Science Stewardship (SUCCESS).