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Medicine

Aging expert Robert Friedland says exercising for 30 minutes each day, regardless of weather or circumstance, is enough to improve physical health. Photo by RODNAE Productions via Pexels.com.

Tips for a longer, healthier life from UofL aging expert

Just as a person builds savings to support a happy retirement financially, building health reserves can allow you to enjoy life in the later...
Psychological well-being corresponds to lower heart disease risk factors according to UofL study. Photo by August de Richelieu via Pexels.com

UofL researchers find link between mental well-being and heart disease risk

A study at the University of Louisville found that overall psychological well-being corresponds to lower risk factors for heart disease. Researchers in UofL’s Christina Lee...
Louisville’s Founders Square is bound by South Fifth Street, West Muhammad Ali Boulevard and Armory Place in Downtown Louisville. Directly across South Fifth, the building at left is part of the University of Louisville’s New Vision of Health Campus. (UofL Photo)

Trager family pledges $1 million to UofL to fund urban micro-forest at Founders Square

The University of Louisville’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute has received a pledge of $1 million from the Trager family to establish the Trager...
Pawel Lorkiewicz, assistant professor of chemistry and a researcher in the UofL Superfund Research Center, established methods for detecting and quantifying urinary metabolites of VOCs which are used in the human and wastewater studies for VOC exposure.

UofL Superfund Research Center receives $10.8 million to expand studies into effects of environmental...

The University of Louisville has been awarded $10.8 million in renewed funding for the UofL Superfund Research Center, part of the Christina Lee Brown...
Lauren Garrett, UofL senior bioengineering student, tests one of two new multiphoton confocal microscopes provided to the University of Louisville by the Veterans Health Administration

UofL and Robley Rex VA Medical Center partnership leads to new state-of-the-art multiphoton microscopes...

As the nation gets set to celebrate Veterans Day on Nov. 11, a pair of new state-of-the-art microscopes have been provided by the Veterans...
Alex Carll, assistant professor in the UofL Department of Physiology, front, with Matthew Nystoriak, associate professor of medicine

UofL researchers discover e-cigarettes cause cardiac arrhythmias

A new study from University of Louisville researchers in the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute has found that exposure to e-cigarette aerosols can cause...
Christian Furman

UofL geriatrician hopes to influence policy, redefine aging experience

Christian Davis Furman recently was accepted into the Health and Aging Policy Fellows (HAPF) Program in Washington D.C. Furman, the medical director of the UofL Trager...
A UofL study is believed to be the first to use biological data to connect factors like stress, capacity, physical and social environment and whether work is meaningful with risk for chronic health conditions.

UofL research shows connection between work and health UofL study believed to be first...

With employee burnout high and the Great Resignation looming, pioneering new research from the University of Louisville shows some likely drivers in workplace culture...
Central High School student LaMya Hickman shadows Edward Miller, UofL assistant professor and director of maternal fetal medicine, at UofL Hospital

Central High School students experience life in the medical field by shadowing UofL doctors

The Central High School Pre-Medical Magnet Program is giving west Louisville students an up-close and personal experience with a career in medicine. Students are...
Research Louisville 2022

Research!Louisville highlights included renowned genomics expert John D. Carpten

The 27th annual Research!Louisville (R!L) symposium, sponsored by the University of Louisville and School of Medicine, the Office of the Executive Vice President for...