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Medical students inspired by courage of kids with cancer and blood diseases

May 10, 2016

Second-year University of Louisville medical student Taylor Hodge showed 9-year-old Carra the ribbon and medal she had just earned by running the Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon.

UofL Dean, KentuckyOne Health Chief Nursing Officer call for more highly educated nursing workforce in Kentucky

May 9, 2016

National Nurses Week is May 6-12, and two of Louisville’s prominent nursing leaders – Marcia J. Hern, EdD, CNS, RN, dean and professor of UofL’s School of Nursing, and Velinda J.

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.