Arthroscopic knee surgery is no better than fake surgery for some people with torn meniscus cartilage, study suggests
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The Lexington Herald-Leader blasted the University of Kentucky in an editorial Sunday for “stonewalling questions about the decision to halt pediatric cardiothoracic surgeries and the mysterious sidelining of Dr. Mark...
Saint Joseph East hospital in Lexington is Kentucky’s first hospital to offer a customized total knee replacement system in which each the knee implant is made to match the individual...
More than 250 people have signed a petition asking the University of Kentucky hospital “to make public the mortality rates for pediatric cardiothoracic surgery patients from 2010, 2011 and 2012,”...
Dr. Mark Plunkett, the chief University of Kentucky cardiothoracic surgeon whose surgery program was suspended last year for unspecified reasons, has accepted a new job a the University of Florida....
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky‘s health-care system has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade, becoming one of the state’s...
Kentucky Children’s Hospital at the University of Kentucky is reviewing its cardio-thoracic surgery program and referring surgical patients to other hospitals, “but the reasons why are unclear,” Brenna Angel reported...
All medicine involves decisions and, according to a new series of nine reports published by the Dartmouth Atlas Project, those decisions differ drastically by location for Medicare patients. In the...
A University of Kentucky study has found that music therapy can reduce pain before, during and after a surgical procedure, and shorten recovery time. The study report, published in the Southern...
University of Kentucky surgeons performed Kentucky’s first combined heart-lung transplant in 15 years this summer, UK announced today. Dawn Nelson, 29, of Louisville, received two lungs and a heart from...