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Medicine

Work by Jackson Taylor

Mixing the arts with hearts: The heART Show

As American Heart Month 2016 begins its final week, the arts will meet hearts as two University of Louisville institutes team up to...
Robert P. Friedland, MD

Oral bacteria linked to risk of stroke

In a study of patients entering the hospital for acute stroke, researchers have increased their understanding of an association between certain types of...
Kelly M. McMasters, M.D., Ph.D. Ben A. Reid, Sr., M.D. Professor and Chairman The Hiram C. Polk, Jr., M.D. Department of Surgery University of Louisville School of Medicine

Interferon not beneficial for most stage III melanoma Final results of trial begun in...

Final results for the Sunbelt Melanoma Trial, published online this month in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, show that thanks to current diagnostic techniques,...
Kelly McMasters M.D., Ph.D.

Interferon not beneficial for most stage III melanoma

Final results for the Sunbelt Melanoma Trial, published online this month in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, show that thanks to current diagnostic...
Abell Building

Program offers specialized care for adult congenital heart disease

Nearly one in every 100 babies is born with some type of heart defect, making congenital heart disease the most common birth defect....

What ever happened with the artificial heart?

At the next edition of Beer with a Scientist, Steven Koenig, PhD, a professor and endowed chair in the Departments of Bioengineering and...
Ben Schoenbachler, MD

Memory, Aging and Alzheimer’s

Most of us have experienced it, or have a loved one who has: You enter a room, intending to retrieve something – and...
Lorrel Brown, M.D.

UofL physician creating more efficient staff procedures for cardiac arrest at UofL Hospital

Lorrel Brown, M.D., assistant professor of cardiology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, is working to improve the way staff respond...
Ashok Kumar, PhD, left, and Sajedah M. Hindi, PhD, right

UofL scientists identify a critical pathway to improve muscle repair

Researchers at UofL have discovered a mechanism involved in skeletal muscle repair that may enable clinicians to boost the effectiveness of adult stem...

Identical twins undergo first-of-its-kind procedure with UofL Physicians

A woman who survived a rare childhood cancer successfully underwent a first-of-its-kind procedure today with University of Louisville Physicians to help restore her...