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Research!Louisville 2016 winners announced

October 24, 2016

Research!Louisville, which took place Oct. 11-14, featured multiple seminars, two nursing symposiums, lectures, workshops, scientific poster competitions and exhibits. In addition, the University of Louisville and Jewish Hospital & St.

New robotic device to boost balance in spinal cord injury patients at UofL

October 24, 2016

Spinal cord injury researchers at the University of Louisville pioneered activity-based interventions that have helped individuals with spinal cord injury improve mobility. The addition of epidural stimulation to the lumbosacral spinal cord has al

UofL surgeons involved in Indiana woman's double hand transplant

October 21, 2016

A Jeffersonville, Indiana, woman has become the first female hand transplant recipient in Kentucky and the 10th patient to receive a hand transplant from the Louisville Vascularized Composite Allograft program, a partnership of physicians, researc