At the University of Kentucky, researchers are developing better strategies to identify lung cancer patients who could participate in clinical trials for new treatments. Lung cancer causes more deaths than...
Morehead State University, St. Claire Regional Medical Center and the University of Kentucky‘s Institute for Rural Health Policy signed a memorandum of understanding April 30 to form the Appalachian Health...
Two years ago, John Doty was diagnosed with walking pneumonia, and though antibiotics originally helped, the pneumonia came back with a vengeance, and he went to see a cardiologist. He...
By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Telemedicine is a strategy that can be used to help prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease, especially in rural areas, where the disease comes sooner...
The University of Kentucky reported Wednesday that personal health information of 1,079 people who had been patients at its hospital was on a laptop computer that was stolen in early...
The Joint Commission for accredting health-care organizations, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association have designated UK HealthCare a Comprehensive Stroke Center. The university’s medical center joins 63 other...
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 Kentucky Health News Recent changes in Kentucky’s telehealth regulations are making it easier for providers around the state and country to deliver health-care services to Medicaid patients,...
The University of Kentucky annouced Friday that its Markey Cancer Center has earned a prestigious National Cancer Institute designation. With this designation, the center becomes one of 68 in the...