Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Day Combines Research, Opera
The Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center hosted its fourth annual Diabetes Day on Tuesday, May 20. With a focus on current findings in obesity and diabetes research, the day's program featured presentations by nationally prominent physician-scientists as well as regional researchers chosen from abstract submissions.
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Project CARAT
Students, faculty, and staff at the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health are working to establish and grow a unique and valuable program for the people of rural Kentucky. Project CARAT (Coordinating and Assisting the Re-use of Assistive Technology), a program that collects and refurbishes durable medical equipment and distributes it to people who cannot afford it, is setting up a full-service collection and distribution site at the UK Center of Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard.
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UK Researchers Decode Activity of Starch Modifying Enzyme to Provide Opportunities Across Industries
Scientists at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine have gained a new understanding of an enzyme essential for breaking down plant starch, a process used in agriculture, manufacturing and biotechnology.
Dr. Matthew Gentry and Dr. Craig Vander Kooi, associate professors of molecular and cellular biochemistry at the University of Kentucky, and graduate student David Meekins, have decoded the natural process plants use to break down starch.
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Vandsburger Elected to NMR in Biomedicine Editorial Advisory Board
The Saha Cardiovascular Research Center’s Moriel Vandsburger, Ph.D., was elected Associate Member of the NMR in Biomedicine Editorial Advisory Board in recognition of his early-career contributions.
NIH Continues to Pilot Modified Biosketch
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UK Researcher Prepares Paraplegic Patient to "Walk Again" during Kick Off to 2014 World Cup
With an anticipated 1 billion soccer fans around the world watching, a paraplegic Brazilian will signal the start of the 2014 World Cup on June 12 with a miraculous movement.
Suited in a futuristic exoskeleton developed by researchers part of the Walk Again Project, the young man will send a message from his brain to a robotically controlled leg, driving the first kick of the world's most viewed sporting event.
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Advanced MRI Allows Researchers to Visualize Early Indicators of Heart Disease in Obese Children
Children who suffer from obesity carry a burden of premature death into adulthood. Obese children have more than double the risk of mortality in their 30s and 40s compared to children who begin life with a healthy body mass index (BMI).
In addition to being more likely to remain obese as adults, obese children are at a higher risk of developing a number of health conditions, including stroke, diabetes, depression, cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer.
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Wright Receives Retinal Research Foundation Award
Charles Wright, postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has received The Loris and David Rich Postdoctoral Scholar Award from the International Retina Research Foundation (IRRF).
The Loris and David Rich Postdoctoral Scholar Award is one of three IRRF Scholar Awards that have been designated in honor of individuals who played a critical role in the development of the International Retinal Research Foundation and are meant to serve as a memorial to their efforts.
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Orthopedics Weekly Names Johnson as One of the Top Sports Knee Surgeons
Dr. Darren L. Johnson, professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and chair of Sports Medicine at the University of Kentucky, was named one of the top 28 sports knee surgeons in North America by Orthopedics This Week, the most widely read publication in the orthopedics industry.
The list was compiled from the recommendations of thought leaders in the field of sports medicine.
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