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Novak Center for Children’s Health on track for July opening

Six months away from its scheduled opening day, the Novak Center for Children’s Health at the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center continues its...
Fireworks eye safety

Think safety for New Year’s fireworks

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If you choose to mark the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve with the bang of fireworks, take steps to...
Amyloid produced by commensal bacteria may cause changes in protein folding and neuroinflammation in the central nervous system through the autonomic nervous system (particularly the vagus nerve), the trigeminal nerve in the mouth and nasopharynx, and the gut (including mouth, esophagus, stomach and intestines), as well as via the olfactory receptors in the roof of the nose.

UofL researcher refining understanding of the role of microbiota in neurodegeneration with a new...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Research in the past two decades has revealed that microbial organisms in the gut influence health and disease in many ways,...

UofL, Harvard and USF develop model to teach signs of human trafficking

As many as 88 percent of human trafficking victims in the United States interact with a health care professional while they are being exploited....

UofL, Harvard and USF provide model for medical schools to teach the signs of...

As many as 88 percent of human trafficking victims in the United States interact with a health care professional while they are being exploited....

Advisory: Living up to the spirit of their name Gift brothers donate hams Dec....

WHO: Alex Gift and Tommy Gift of Louisville, sons of the late Mary Jane Gift WHAT: Ham donation to patients at the James Graham Brown Cancer...

MEDIA ADVISORY: News media contact numbers for UofL Hospital

Media relations for University of Louisville Hospital are handled by the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center’s Office of Communications and Marketing. To obtain standard...
The UofL House Staff Council collected nearly 900 toys for its Toys for Tots campaign this month. Resident physicians pictured are, clockwise from lower left, Svetlana Famina, M.D., Jason Messinger, M.D., Jamie Morris, M.D. and Paul Parackal, M.B.B.S.

UofL medical residents’ toy drive collects nearly 900 gifts for local kids

Nearly 900 toys swamped a Christmas tree in the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center administration building, ready to be delivered to local children...
ISHOA and KIPDA

Survey for older adults designed to assess social service needs

Senior citizens who live in Jefferson and surrounding Kentucky counties are encouraged to take a brief survey online or over the phone to help...
Andrew Meas, a research participant at UofL with a complete spinal cord injury, with members of the resarch team, Claudia Angeli, Susan Harkema and Enrico Rejc,.

FDA approves study to test epidural stimulation for spinal cord injury at UofL Researchers...

The University of Louisville School of Medicine has received approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to begin enrolling participants in a feasibility...