http://app.mc.uky.edu/medicine/news/consumer/news.asp News at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine delivered via RSS 2.0! en-us Copyright 2008 College of Medicine Stephen Welch comwebmaster@lsv.uky.edu comwebmaster@lsv.uky.edu Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:26:37 GMT news A University of Kentucky researcher has helped to develop a quick test that could be used by doctors in the clinic to evaluate the treatment response of patients with advanced Alzheimers disease. Dr. Frederick A. Schmitt, professor of neurology, psychiatry, behavioral science,and psychology, UK College of Medicine and UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, along with Dr. Judith Saxton, University of Pittsburgh, and other colleagues, published their findings in the journal Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders. Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/three-minute-test-tracks-alzheimers-symptoms Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:16:10 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/three-minute-test-tracks-alzheimers-symptoms http://uknow.uky.edu/content/three-minute-test-tracks-alzheimers-symptoms 7H000 research Alzheimers Aging A lot can happen in 10 minutes. For University of Kentucky College of Medicine students, 10 minutes could have impacted their entire future as they "career speed date" with alumni this past Saturday at the University of Kentucky Hilary J. Boone Center. “Career speed dating is a new concept that is making its way around college campuses,” said UK Medical Alumni Association President Michael Rankin. "We are very excited to have hosted ‘Career Chats with Alumni,’ again this year. It brings UK College of Medicine alumni and students together in a creative and meaningful way, to help students determine a career path and present alumni with the opportunity to serve their alma mater. Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/career-%E2%80%9Cspeed-dating%E2%80%9D-medical-students-alumni Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:44:48 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/career-%E2%80%9Cspeed-dating%E2%80%9D-medical-students-alumni http://uknow.uky.edu/content/career-%E2%80%9Cspeed-dating%E2%80%9D-medical-students-alumni 7H000 students career alumni The University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and the African-American Dementia Outreach Partnership will host a seminar on "Healthy Aging: Mind, Body and Spirit." The seminar begins at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at the North Lexington Family YMCA, 381 W. Loudon Ave. in Lexington. “Increasing awareness of this devastating disease of the brain is an important part of changing community behavior," said Deborah Danner, director of education for the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Alzheimers Disease Center. "Presentations in the community such as this one at the YMCA promote lifestyle modifications that increase the likelihood of maintaining a healthy brain.” Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-sanders-brown-host-seminar-healthy-aging Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:45:39 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-sanders-brown-host-seminar-healthy-aging http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-sanders-brown-host-seminar-healthy-aging 7H000 seminar Center on Aging Healthy Aging February is American Heart Month. It also marks one year of operation for the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Battling to change health habits among Kentuckians – a population with some of the highest heart disease rates in the world – the program is helping high-risk patients make radical, lasting changes to improve their heart health. “People have a notion of heart disease as something they’re born with, but for most people that isn’t true. Genetics play a role, but lifestyle accounts for the majority of heart disease risk,” says Dr. Alison Bailey, Gill Heart Institute cardiologist and director of the cardiac rehab program. Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/healing-hearts-through-cardiac-rehab Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:51:36 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/healing-hearts-through-cardiac-rehab http://uknow.uky.edu/content/healing-hearts-through-cardiac-rehab 7H000 clinical Gill Heart The University of Kentucky is working to save heart attack patients lives by shaving off minutes between the ambulance and treatment at the hospital. So far, treatment time has been reduced by about 35 minutes under a new protocol that calls for certain types of heart attack patients to go straight to the cardiac catheterization lab instead of the emergency room. The protocol is based on research that shows that the risk of death drops 7.5 percent for every half hour shaved off the time between the ambulance and treatment at the hospital for patients with certain kinds of heart attacks.

 “We hope to have an even higher or 100 percent success rate of timely angioplasty by bypassing the emergency department and taking the patient immediately to the catheterization laboratory for treatment,” said Dr. Debabrata Mukherjee, director of cardiovascular catheterization services at UK. “The goal is to treat the patient as quickly as possible and give them the best chance of a good recovery. Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/fast-track-speeds-care-after-heart-attack Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:32:01 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/fast-track-speeds-care-after-heart-attack http://uknow.uky.edu/content/fast-track-speeds-care-after-heart-attack 7H000 research Heart Attack Cardiovascular A University of Kentucky researcher is investigating respiratory weakness as a factor in the morbidity of intensive-care patients and will soon be testing new treatments that could improve long-term patient outcomes while reducing costs of care. Dr. Gerald Supinski, professor and vice chair of research for the Department of Internal Medicine in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, was awarded a highly competitive, two-year, $480,000/year NIH Challenge Grant for the project. Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/research-looks-respiratory-weakness-icu-morbidity Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:18:00 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/research-looks-respiratory-weakness-icu-morbidity http://uknow.uky.edu/content/research-looks-respiratory-weakness-icu-morbidity 7H000 research Internal Medicine Respiratory Weakness Dr. William R. Markesbery, 77, who for more than 30 years was director of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, died Jan. 30 at UK Chandler Hospital in Lexington. "Dr. Bill Markesbery left an indelible mark not only on the University of Kentucky, but also across the globe as one of the top Alzheimers researchers in the world," said UK President Lee T. Todd, Jr. "His legacy of groundbreaking research at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has no doubt impacted the lives of those searching for answers in the quest to understand and treat Alzheimers disease and to improve the quality of life of the elderly. We are saddened by the loss of a remarkable colleague, but we have no doubt that Bill Markesberys work will live on for generations to come as we continue the work he started here almost four decades ago." In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and the Best Friends Alzheimer’s Respite and Day Care. Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6828 Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:14:29 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6828 http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6828 7H000 faculty Markesberry Death Center on Aging Philip Landfield, Ph.D., professor and chair in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, has received an esteemed American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows Award. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/university-kentucky-professor-receives-prestigious-fellows-award Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:52:00 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/university-kentucky-professor-receives-prestigious-fellows-award http://uknow.uky.edu/content/university-kentucky-professor-receives-prestigious-fellows-award 7H000 service award Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology The University of Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is now accepting applications for its 2010 Summer Health Career Camps. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-health-career-camps-accepting-applications Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:47:30 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-health-career-camps-accepting-applications http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-health-career-camps-accepting-applications 7H000 students Members of the Kentucky Legislature joined Dr. Jay Perman, University of Kentucky College of Medicine dean and vice president for clinical affairs, for a photo in their white coats at the state capitol Wednesday, Jan. 20. Representative Rocky Adkins, Rep. Susan Westrom, Rep. Carl Rollins, Rep. Ruth Ann Palumbo, Dean Perman, Rep. Tayna Pullin, Rep. David Floyd, Rep. Arnold Simpson, Rep. Bill Farmer, Rep. Bob DeWeese, Rep. John Will Stacy, and Rep. Sannie Overly (from left to right) stand with their white coats they received upon graduating from the University of Kentucky’s first Legislative Mini-Medical School this past October. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/white-coats-frankfort Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:43:17 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/white-coats-frankfort http://uknow.uky.edu/content/white-coats-frankfort 7H000 publication perman Horses and humans share a special bond, especially here in Kentucky. But the two species have more in common than you might think. Just ask Dr. Lori A. Shook, professor of pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and a neonatologist at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6619 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:52:30 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6619 http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6619 7H000 research kentucky childrens hospital Today marks the first anniversary of the opening of the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Since opening, the Family Room has provided respite for more than 19,000 guests. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/celebrating-one-year-changing-lives Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:55:41 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/celebrating-one-year-changing-lives http://uknow.uky.edu/content/celebrating-one-year-changing-lives 7H000 clinical kentucky childrens hospital Kentucky Children’s Hospital and Kohls Cares for Kids will be hosting several programs in Kentucky for caregivers of children with asthma. Kentucky Children’s Hospital and Kohl’s have a continuing a partnership to combat pediatric asthma and allow kids to live more normal, healthy lives. To date, Kohl’s has donated over $760,000 to Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/promoting-pediatric-asthma-awareness Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:54:32 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/promoting-pediatric-asthma-awareness http://uknow.uky.edu/content/promoting-pediatric-asthma-awareness 7H000 fund raiser kentucky childrens hospital A breakthrough discovery by scientists at the University of Kentucky could someday lead to new treatments for a variety of diseases of the brain, spinal cord and the eye. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-study-advances-new-target-cns-drug-development Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:02:12 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-study-advances-new-target-cns-drug-development http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-study-advances-new-target-cns-drug-development 7H000 research opthalmology It is important to understand the diagnosis of diabetes, says Dr. Irene Hong-McAtee, assistant professor of pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and a pediatric endocrinologist at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/improving-lives-children-diabetes Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:51:11 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/improving-lives-children-diabetes http://uknow.uky.edu/content/improving-lives-children-diabetes 7H000 research endocrinology diabetes ”The University of Kentucky is a great American university and a splendid place to engage in service not only to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but to the nation and world as well,” said Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr. Laura Whitehouse lbwhit00@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6485 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:49:52 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6485 http://uknow.uky.edu/node/6485 7H000 publication Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, professor and vice chairman of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Kentucky, has been selected the 2010 winner of the Roger Johnson MD Memorial Award in Macular Degeneration Research. The award recognizes outstanding contribution to the understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by a clinician or basic science researcher working anywhere in the world. "I am humbled to receive this prestigious award," Ambati said. "It is a tribute to the tremendous ingenuity and industry of my entire team of young scientists who are as dedicated as I am to hasten the day when blindness from AMD is a distant memory." Stephen Welch shwelc2@email.uky.edu http://uknow.uky.edu/content/ambati-receive-international-award-amd-research Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:14:25 GMT http://uknow.uky.edu/content/ambati-receive-international-award-amd-research http://uknow.uky.edu/content/ambati-receive-international-award-amd-research 7H000 research Ambati Eye