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UofL meeting behavioral health needs in rural Kentucky

July 30, 2018

Rural areas in the United States face a shortage of behavioral health practitioners.

Nominate outstanding nurses for 5th annual UofL Nightingale Awards

July 26, 2018

Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale, nurses touch the lives of others and improve health care in numerous ways, from clinical practice and public service to education and research.

Parents have difficulty estimating sugar content in kids’ food

A recent study from researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin verifies what several University of Louisville physicians and dentists see in their practices: Parents, though well-meaning, are not good judges of the amount of sugar in common