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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

UofL research looks at effects of chronic toxin exposure, high-fat diet

July 20, 2018

Chronic exposure to arsenic could cause all kinds of health problems for adults. But according to research from the University of Louisville, that exposure could also be passed on to their kids.