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Physicians familiar with stresses facing transgender youth better equipped to provide care

February 6, 2018

Research shows that transgender youth experience higher rates of depression and are more likely to attempt suicide.

UofL researchers report activity-based training improves urinary function after spinal cord injury

February 1, 2018

Activity-based training has resulted in unexpected benefits for individuals with severe spinal cord injury.

ACL tears common, but exercise can prevent them

February 1, 2018

As Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz knows all too well, juking a defender and other sudden changes of direction can cause one of the most common injuries in football – tears to the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL.