The Southeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the University of Kentucky (UK) Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) hosted the annual Summer Health Careers Enrichment Camp June 12-25, 2013.  The camp, which is a joint project between the two organizations, brings together ninth and tenth graders from Perry and surrounding counties for a two-week camp aimed at enhancing students’ interest in health care careers.

The Kentucky Office of Rural Health will host the 2013 Region B Meeting of the southeastern State Offices of Rural Health.  The meeting is convened in association with the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health and will be held in Lexington, Ky., August 6-8, 2013.

UK ‘Gives Kids a Smile’ with free dental care
by Amelia Holliday
Hazard-Herald

HAZARD — UK Healthcare hosted its seventh annual “Give Kids a Smile” at the Hazard Walmart on Monday, giving many children — and their parents — a reason to smile with free dental examinations and cleanings.

Dr. Nikki Stone, one of the head dentists at the event, said around 40 kids had come out to have their teeth cleaned so far at the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile.

Archaeal nucleosome positioning in vivo and in vitro is directed by primary sequence motifs

Congratulations to Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf for their recent honor of being recognized by the F1000 for their recently published article.  This is an honor as F1000Prime identifies and recommends important articles in biology and medical research publications.

In the July 2013 issue of the UK ORI IRB Review, the topic of internet research is discussed.  Follow this link to read the article.

Through early support of promising investigators in fields ranging from lung cancer to Alzheimer's disease to pediatric heart disease, the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has seen great return on their investment in recent years in the area of biomedical imaging at UK. The growth through investment ratio in this area has been great, with the return in federally-funded grants greatly multiplying the initial investment by the CCTS in the investigators' work.