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New Year, New Lease on Life for Two Louisville Transplant Patients
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 8, 2016)– While Friday the 13th is traditionally associated with bad luck, it now represents an important anniversary for 64-year-old Louisville resident Stan Burch. Stan, who had...
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Gill Goes Red: Heart-Healthy Tips, Treats and Prizes on Feb. 5
LEXINGTON, Ky.(Jan. 29, 2016) — At noon on Friday, Feb. 5, UK's Gill Heart Institute will be "going red." February is Heart Month and Feb. 5 is the American Heart Association's "Go Red Day" celebrating...
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Do You Know Your Numbers? Make Heart-Healthy Lifestyle Choices During...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2016) — It's National Heart Month — a good time to think more deeply about your health and how to make heart-healthy lifestyle choices. “More people know about heart health now...
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Heart-Healthy Tips, Treats and Prizes in Chandler Hospital Pavilion A Tomorrow
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 4, 2016) — Want a free chair massage? An aromatherapy hand massage? A chocolaty fruit treat? If you "Go Red" tomorrow, you can get all of this and more. February is Heart Month...
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"Go Red for Women" Celebrates Women's Heart Health at Gill Heart Institute
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 8, 2016) — The unspoken pact among Wildcat fans to always "Bleed Blue" was suspended last week in the Pavilion A atrium of UK Chandler Hospital long enough for supporters to "Go...
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Being Heart Healthy is Easier Than You Think
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 16, 2016)– It's the halfway mark of National Heart Month and by now more than one in three people have abandoned their New Year's resolutions. Even people with the best of...
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2016 Gill Award Recipients Named
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 24, 2016) — The University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute has named Dr. Helen Hobbs and Dr. Barry Coller as recipients of the 2016 Gill Award in recognition of their lifelong...
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Grant Will Fund Study Anticoagulants and LVADs
LEXINGTON, KY. (Feb. 24, 2016) — Left Ventricular Assist Devices, or LVADs, can be true lifesavers for people with heart failure, either as a permanent replacement for a failing heart or as a sort of...
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UK HealthCare Hosting Transplant Games Flag this Thursday
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 14, 2016)– The Transplant Games of America's National Flag Tour will stop at UK HealthCare this Thursday, March 17, to celebrate organ donors and recipients on its way to the 2016...
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New Technology Helps Patients Get Better and Stay Well
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 14, 2016) − Every year, tens of thousands of people are hospitalized for various ailments, and each of them require daily in-hospital visits from doctors, nurses, and other health...
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UK Celebrates 25 Years of Heart Transplantation
LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 15, 2016) − More than 100 patients, families and UK HealthCare staff gathered April 13th to celebrate an important milestone: the 25th anniversary of the first heart transplant at...
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UK Cardiologist is Leading a Study to Explore a New Way to Heal Resistant...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 3, 2016) — What does your blood pressure have in common with a garden hose? Quite a lot, in fact. Increasing the pressure in a garden hose (whether by opening your faucet to full...
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UK Opens the Door of Possibility for Minority High School Students Interested...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 24, 2016)– Most high school students are exposed to history, biology and algebra classes, but a fortunate group of students from Lexington's Bryan Station High School (BSHS) had the...
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Newer Blood Thinners are Changing the Standard of Care
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 11, 2016) — Oral anticoagulants (blood thinners) are commonly prescribed for prevention of stroke due to mechanical heart valves or an irregular heart beat called atrial...
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For an Experienced Research Participant, A Potentially Life-Saving Personal...
LEXINGTON, Ky.(Aug. 22, 2016) — On the first of May, 2015, Angelique Bell waited in a hair salon, reading the weekend section of the newspaper. She noticed an ad for a health research study that...
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