The world of pediatric cancer treatment has seen huge advancements in treatments over the past 60 years – in the 1950s, less than 10 percent of children were cured of their cancer. Today, the number of survivors is nearly 80 percent.
However, that still means that one in five children diagnosed with cancer will not survive. Many childhood cancers can be extremely difficult to treat, and research is key to developing new, better therapies for these diseases.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center have made a breakthrough discovery that solves a mystery long forgotten by science and have identified a potentially novel avenue in pre-clinical models to treat non-small cell lung cancers.
HAZARD, Ky. (Sept. 11, 2019) — Kentucky’s newly appointed Commissioner of Public Health Dr. Angela T. Dearinger will speak at the fifth annual Appalachian Research Day: Come Sit on the Porch. The University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) hosts this one-day event each year to bring attention to health disparities research in Appalachia. Appalachian Research Day will be held Wednesday, Sept. 18 at the First Federal Center in Hazard.
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Article features Donna Wilcock, PhD [Sanders-Brown Center on Aging; Department of Physiology]
The links below contain all of the material you need for 2019 University of Kentucky Cardiovascular Research Day.
Grocery shopping can be overwhelming given the number of choices down every aisle and deciding between what is healthy or not can add to that challenge. It is possible to stick to a healthy meal plan – you just have to plan ahead.
Here are grocery guidelines to reduce the amount of dietary fat, sugar, and salt that is associated with a higher risk for obesity, heart attack, diabetes and other diseases.
Dr. Emily Marcinkowski is the new Director of Surgery Advanced Development for fourth-year medical students. Her appointment by the UK College of Medicine Curriculum Committee became official this September.
She joins Dr. Cortney Lee as a co-director in the Department of Surgery's Medical School Education clerkships.
This month's suggested reading is "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing" by Paul Silvia. Some people find writing easy. Some find it hard. Either way, from your graduate training on you get to do a lot of it. This slim volume (just 110 pages!) provides some guidelines to help you get it done (hint: just do it).
In August the Department had six new publications listed in PubMed.
1: Slaughter KB, Dutch RE. Transmembrane domain dissociation is required for Hendra F protein fusogenic activity. J Virol. 2019 Aug 28. pii: JVI.01069-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01069-19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31462574.
