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To Your Health: Use of Pediatric Fever and Pain Medications

July 11, 2012

Fever and pain are symptoms about which every parent worries. Fever is a parent’s clue to an illness (usually an infection). Often, parents worry that fever, itself, might do harm. They have heard of seizures and of “brain damage” and worry that these problems might have been avoided, if fever had been controlled. This article is too short to explain why those worries are greater than the actual risk. Instead, this was written to tell people that the tools for controlling fever are not as safe as families may believe.

I-65 North near campus to be closed this weekend

July 10, 2012

Northbound lanes on I-65 near the Belknap and Health Sciences campuses will be completely shut down this weekend for final paving of the roadway, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.

Swope gives $1 million to UofL

July 6, 2012

Louisville businessman Sam Swope presented President James Ramsey with a check for $1 million in June.