Medicine

Medicine

UofL Health invested in the health of Bullitt County and the surrounding area with the opening of a full-service, inpatient hospital, UofL Health – South Hospital

UofL Health opens new hospital in Bullitt County

UofL Health celebrated the much-anticipated opening of UofL Health –South Hospital, in Bullitt County, Ky. on Monday, March 18. The $78-million acute care hospital opened...
Dawn Caster, associate professor and the co-director of research for the UofL Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

Kidney specialist encourages young women to make their careers in STEM fields

Pursuing medicine wasn’t always Dawn Caster’s plan for herself. She didn’t start college on the “pre-med” track. Instead, she obtained dual undergraduate degrees in...

UofL innovators selected for inaugural National Academy of Inventors honor

Four University of Louisville innovators have been selected by the prestigious National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for its 2024 class of Senior Members.  NAI Senior Members...
Clara Sears, assistant professor and researcher in UofL’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, is working to understand how exposure to pollutants before birth and in infancy affects sleep health in adolescence. UofL photo.

UofL researcher connecting pollution exposure and sleep health

Clara Sears is fascinated by sleep. Quality sleep is essential to support growth and development and many adolescents in the U.S. are not getting...
UofL celebrates Women's History Month 2024 by highlighting a few women at UofL who are pillars in STEM. Pictured: Top row L to R: Dawn Caster, Hunter Hayden and Christine Burgan. Bottom row L to R: Olfa Nasraoui, Gretel Monreal and Cheri Levinson

Women’s History Month: Pillars in STEM UofL News commemorates Women's History Month by highlighting...

Women at the University of Louisville are leading, discovering and making history throughout campus and beyond. During March, UofL is celebrating the contribution of...
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raiseRED adds $516,000 to the fight against pediatric cancer

UofL students took to the dance floor to “Fight Like a Kid” for the 11th annual raiseRED dance marathon, coming out victorious by raising...

UofL researchers develop AI-powered tool to diagnose autism earlier

University of Louisville researchers have developed a new AI-powered tool that could help doctors diagnose autism at a younger age. Autism is a spectrum of...
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UofL researchers among the most-cited in the world

More than 100 University of Louisville researchers are among the top 2% most-cited in the world, according to a new list compiled by Stanford...
Polypharmacy

UofL leader in medication management expands polypharmacy education, research

Demetra Antimisiaris, director of the Jean Frazier Polypharmacy and Medication Management Program (FPMMP) at the University of Louisville Schools of Medicine and Public Health...
Katelyn Sheneman is a doctoral student in microbiology and immunology at UofL

UofL student hopes to prevent disease, help other young scientists along the way

Katelyn Sheneman, a doctoral student in microbiology and immunology at UofL, is studying Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes bubonic and pneumonic plague, to...