A couple dozen bikers raised about $3,000 on Saturday during the fifth annual Alzheimer’s Ride for a Cure.

Arriving at the Sheriff’s Posse facility on Witty Lane, the route had not yet been released, and the bikers gathered in a small group to hear the directions of where they’d be headed.

First, they were going to Princeton, where they’d hang a left and work their way over to Land Between the Lakes for a stop at the welcome center on the Woodlands Trace National Scenic Byway, commonly referred to as just “The Trace.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 1, 2016) —The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) has been awarded an $8.25 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue and further research and clinical initiatives geared toward treating Alzheimer's disease.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 3, 2016) –  Because Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, many people use the two terms interchangeably. But inadequate blood flow to the brain due to microinfarcts, mini-strokes, or strokes is a hallmark of a disease called Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID). VCID is the second most common cause of dementia, and the two are not mutually exclusive – researchers estimate that 40-60% of Alzheimer’s disease patients also have VCID.

A recently published a report on the failing water system of Martin County in Eastern Kentucky finds that almost half of the county’s residents cannot afford their current water service. Residents and county advocates are now asking for a termination in rate increases, as they are already paying some of the highest water bills in the state.

Center faculty and staff recently published CHSR's FY 2019 Annual Report which covers its activities from July 2018 through June 2019. It includes the accomplishments of the Data Analytics and Statistical Analysis Core (DASC), the Office for Value and Innovation in Healthcare Delivery (OVIHD), and the Research support unit during FY 2019.

Read the full report here.

UK Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Tim Mullett, MD, FACS, was named Chair-Elect of the Commission on Cancer (CoC), a program of the American College of Surgeons, during a plenary session on Sunday, October 27 at the 2019 Clinical Congress in San Francisco.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 12,2019) —A team of investigators working with the Mountain Air Project (MAP) based at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health equipped young research volunteers with digital cameras to allow them to document environmental health issues in their local environments in what is believed to be the first effort at using photovoice to engage youth in environmental health research in Appalachia.

Megalin: A Bridge Connecting Kidney, the Renin-angiotensin System, and Atherosclerosis