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Mental health services now provided at racetrack clinic

May 4, 2016

The unseen workers who help ensure thrilling thoroughbred races at Churchill Downs now have better mental health support for the emotional problems their itinerant jobs often compound.

Certified nurse midwife to discuss hormones’ role in labor, childbirth

May 3, 2016

A pregnant woman’s body undergoes a complex set of interconnected, mutually beneficial phases that prepare her and her baby for childbirth. The hormonal actions occurring in one phase anticipate and usher in subsequent phases.

UofL dental school grads return home to serve rural Kentucky with a little help from some friends

May 2, 2016

As girls growing up in rural Kentucky, it was a an easy decision for Emily Knight and Jerrica Norvell to return to the communities they loved to work as health care professionals. Receiving money to make that happen sweetened the pot.