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A residential area showing trees and shrubs added for the Green Heart Louisville Project. Photo by Mike Wilkinson for The Nature Conservancy.
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UofL Green Heart Project: residents' inflammation lower after trees added to neighborhoods

August 27, 2024
Betty Coffman

The University of Louisville’s groundbreaking Green Heart Louisville Project has found that people living in neighborhoods where the number of trees and shrubs was more than doubled showed lower levels of a blood marker of inflammation than those

UofL cardiologist Roberto Bolli, center, with team members working in a biomedical laboratory.
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UofL cardiologist leading clinical trial for high potential new therapy for heart failure

August 6, 2024
Betty Coffman

A new stem cell therapy for heart failure is being tested in patients at the University of Louisville and UofL Health.

Clara Sears, assistant professor and researcher in UofL’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, seated on a sofa.

UofL researcher connecting pollution exposure and sleep health

March 6, 2024
Betty Coffman

Clara Sears is fascinated by sleep. Quality sleep is essential to support growth and development and many adolescents in the U.S. are not getting enough.