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UofL School of Medicine creates Medical Mile walking path to promote wellness

April 18, 2018

Students, faculty, staff, patients and visitors to facilities within the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center now have a marked one-mile path to foster wellness through walking.

Innovative field training prepares UofL medical students for emergency situations

April 16, 2018

"Odds are that at some point in your flying career, you will have to respond to an overhead page: ‘Is there any doctor on board the flight,’” Raymond Orthober, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Louisville, told 35

UofL research: Self-inflicted gunshot wound survivors may deny suicide attempt, face barriers to care

April 13, 2018

Researchers have found that more than one-third of patients who denied that their self-inflicted gunshot wound resulted from a suicide attempt most likely had indeed tried to kill themselves, and commonly were sent home from the hospital without f