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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