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Future doctors receive their first white coat at UofL White Coat Ceremony marks beginning of journey in medical school
Today is the first day of medical school for 163 students at the University of Louisville, who received their first white coat as a...
UofL meeting behavioral health needs in rural Kentucky American Journal of Preventive Medicine study finds access is a problem
Rural areas in the United States face a shortage of behavioral health practitioners. As CNN recently reported, a new study in the American Journal...
Nominate outstanding nurses for 5th-annual UofL Nightingale Awards
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale, nurses touch the lives of others and improve health care in numerous ways, from...
Parents have difficulty estimating sugar content in kids’ food UofL providers daily see problem newly researched by German institute
A recent study from researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin verifies what several University of Louisville physicians and dentists see in their...
Northeast Kentucky AHEC receives national recognition
The Northeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center (NE KY AHEC) has received the Center of Excellence Award in Distribution at the National AHEC Organization’s...
Major gift to UofL supports first generation Kentucky students Carl Pollard creates major scholarship fund in show of confidence in UofL
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Carl F. Pollard, the former Humana executive and Churchill Downs, Inc. chairman, is donating $2.5 million to the University of Louisville...
Testing the waters Summer program prepares undergraduates for professional health careers
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In the simulation center at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, several dozen undergraduate students are sampling some of the...
‘A Taste of Health’ to honor nurses, health care workers for community service during hepatitis A outbreak July 26 event will feature healthy food from local restaurants, live music
“A Taste of Health” event will be held on Thursday, July 26, to thank nurses and other health care workers for their service to...
UofL researcher receives Outstanding Investigator Award from International Society for Heart Research Steven P. Jones, Ph.D., works to understand the molecular explanations of heart failure
University of Louisville researcher Steven P. Jones, Ph.D., was named the 2018 Outstanding Investigator from the International Society for Heart Research on Tuesday at...
UofL Hospital, partners offering free testing for hepatitis C across city on World Hepatitis Day All groups may be at risk for hepatitis C, which can have no symptoms
University of Louisville Hospital and community partners will be offering free hepatitis C screenings at 18 locations in Louisville and surrounding counties for World...