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UofL e-cigarette research shows harm to health

January 24, 2019

University of Louisville researchers are studying the effects of electronic cigarettes and hookahs on cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular researcher Daniel Conklin is leading this study.

UofL researcher part of international team to discover bacterial pathogen in Alzheimer’s patients

January 24, 2019

New science uncovers how an unlikely culprit, Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) – the bacterium commonly associated with chronic gum disease – appears to drive Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

UofL’s McMasters gives moving speech on difference between patient treatment and care

January 22, 2019

In a moving speech on the difference between palliative “treatment” and palliative “care,” the University of Louisville’s Kelly McMasters, MD, PhD, gave the keynote lecture last week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Gastrointestinal