Morgan County health care professionals hear about the “disease of addiction”
Addiction doesn’t make any sense and purely punitive approaches to ending addiction will not work, Dr. John Sanders, the medical director for hospice and palliative medicine at St. Claire HealthCare in Morehead, told a group of Morgan County health care professionals on July 18.
Community members receive Naloxone training at Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital
Sixty community members took part in free Naloxone training offered on July 17 at the Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital in Hyden.
Training participants also received two doses of Naloxone to use if they encounter someone suffering from an opioid overdose.
The training and Naloxone distribution — provided by the Kentucky Department for Public Health and the Kentucky Pharmacists Association’s Naloxone Dispensing Program — is just one of the community outreach events planned as part of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health (KORH)-led Critical Access Substance Abuse Project (CASAP).
St. Clair Selected 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
New CT faculty member earns scholarship for atrial fibrillation surgery fellowship
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) awarded Dr. Tessa London a scholarship to participate in the James L. Cox Fellowship in atrial fibrillation surgery. She is one of only seven surgeons selected to participate in this fellowship training in 2018.
New Center Established to Address Kentucky Health Disparities
At the University for Kentucky, understanding and addressing the health needs of the people of the Commonwealth is the goal of many faculty, staff, clinicians and researchers. As a step toward improving health equity, the University of Kentucky Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) was established and recently approved by the UK Board of Trustees.
UK Doctoral Candidate Selected to Participate in New Advocacy Program
Ten researchers from institutions across the U.S. have been selected to participate in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Advocacy Training Program, a rigorous six-month program aiming to produce the next generation of science advocates. Among those chosen is Aria Byrd, a doctoral candidate in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and researcher in the Fillmore Brainson Lab.
A Rising Star in NIH Funding!
According to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (http://www.brimr.org/default.htm), with just under $11,000,000 in NIH research funding, the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry is ranked 19th among biochemistry departments in medical schools in the United States.
The COBRE Nanbodies Project
We are now offering a single domain antibody (Nanobody®) production service. Nanobodies, in contrast to conventional antibodies which are made up of two heavy and two light chains with a molecular weight of ~150,000, are composed of only heavy chains. The heavy chain nanobody domains can be isolated as a small 15,000 Da single domain antibody, which retains the high affinity of conventional antibodies. Due to their small size nanobodies can be expressed in E. coli and their cDNAs manipulated in a variety of ways.
Dr. Beth A. Garvy newly appointed to the FASEB Board of Directors
UKnow: UK Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Collaborate to Perform Rare Operation
