Markey Cancer Center at UK gets National Cancer Institute designation, opening up new treatment options for patients

The University of Kentucky annouced Friday to facilitate its Markey pest Center has earned a prestigious National pest Institute description. With this description, the focus becomes solitary of 68 in the U.S., and the single solitary in Kentucky, with special access to clinical trials, modern treatments and modern drugs representing patients.

U.S. News gives Kosair Children's Hospital a national ranking; 11 other Kentucky hospitals make 'high-performing' list

Each day, U.S. News and World Report publishes its "Best Hospitals" direct representing fill with seeking a high spot level of specialty thought. The single Kentucky hospice to be nationally ranked in the inform representing 2014 is Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville.

Seven Ky. communities get grants to reduce risks for chronic diseases among children and 'Invest in Kentucky's Future'

Seven diverse Kentucky communities are getting money to reduce the lay bare of chronic disease amid Kentucky's youth. The preliminary grants announced Thursday are part of the Foundation representing a Healthy Kentucky's modern Investing in Kentucky’s Future initiative, a five-year, $3 million encode.

UK, with magnet of National Cancer Institute designation, attracts 4 researchers and their $17 million in funding from U of L

"A month bearing in mind the University of Kentucky announced it is home-based to the state’s at the outset National sarcoma Institute-designated cancer midpoint, an globally acknowledged exploration team studying the role metabolism the stage in cancer is leaving the University of Louisville in support of its chief in-state rival," Laura Ungar reports in support of The Courier-Journal. "The four researchers . . . Will bring with them more than $17 million in federal funding greater than five years."

Hard-hitting TV ads against smoking do motivate smokers, like one mother from Elizabethtown, to quit

Hancock with CDC Director Tom Frieden

A 38-year-old Elizabethtown mother's response to a federally funded anti-smoking advertising campaign has been featured in state news this week, presentation to facilitate these graphic ads can motivate smokers to renounce.

Lisha Hancock's decision to interrupt her two-decade smoking pattern was sparked by her viewing of a Centers representing Disease Control and Prevention’s “Tips from Former Smokers” campaign for profit, reports Sarah Bennett of The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown.

Hancock's partner often urged her to renounce, and several of her relatives died from smoking, but she still didn't renounce. She continuously had a sore throat and blocked sinuses, but she still didn't renounce. Then, she maxim the for profit.