Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 Saha Awards. 

The Saha Awards are given to encourage and support staff and students with an interest in and dedication to cardiovascular medicine. Each award includes an unrestricted $1000 prize, a certificate and recognition at the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute Cardiovascular Research Day held on September 21, 2018 at the Lexington Convention Center.

No matter how diligently a person with diabetes works at their diabetes management, the amount of effort put in doesn’t always yield the desired results, and it can be very frustrating.

A person living with diabetes can spend hours every day tracking blood glucose levels, calculating insulin injections, finding time for exercise, counting carbohydrates and making food substitutions. Timing is everything in all areas of life, particularly for the person living with diabetes. The challenges can be great but the reward of a longer, healthier life is greater.

DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M080879

The opioid epidemic has ravaged communities across the United States and few states have been harder hit than Kentucky. There is, however, a reason to have hope. Researchers, physicians and leaders in the Commonwealth and across the nation are working to find solutions that can help people enter recovery and save lives.

The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been awarded a $2 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to train the next generation of dementia researchers. 

The T32 training grant, “Training in Traditional Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (TRIAD),” is the first Sanders-Brown Center on Aging training grant dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

People lead busy lives and managing doctor appointments for the entire family can be challenging, especially if a different physician is needed for each family member according to age or health concern. Getting everyone to their appointments may require trips to different doctors in different locations. 

DISABILITY OR COMPLEX SPINE SURGERY?

Multiple back surgeries since age 21 had left Richmond resident Dave Lee with a 13-inch scar, a spine flanked by metal rods melded to his spine by screws, and excruciating pain..

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With support from the College of Medicine in 2017, the Center for Health Services Research (CHSR) selected and funded four projects in the Value of Innovation to Implementation Program (VI²P); https://chsr.med.uky.edu/vi2p.

UK HealthCare has more than 155 physicians practicing medicine with University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children's Hospital, UK Good Samaritan Hospital who appear on the Best Doctors in America List for 2019 — more than any other hospital in Kentucky. Only four percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor, decided by impartial peer review.