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Herald-Leader blasts UK for secrecy surrounding children's heart program and its efforts to rebuild it despite nearby competition

Posted by | 8:59 AM
The Lexington Herald-Leader blasted the University of Kentucky in an editorial Sunday for "stonewalling questions about the decision ...

New type of artificial knee, designed for individual patients, is being implanted at St. Joseph East in Lexington

Posted by | 2:24 PM
Saint Joseph East hospital in Lexington is Kentucky's first hospital to offer a customized total knee replacement system in which each ...

Petition drive from parents asks UK Healthcare to release mortality rates for cardiothoracic surgeries on children

Posted by | 9:57 AM
More than 250 people have signed a petition asking the University of Kentucky hospital "to make public the mortality rates for pediatri...

Chief of cardiothoracic surgery and pediatric heart program at UK, suspended from surgeries, takes job in Florida

Posted by | 3:23 PM
Dr. Mark Plunkett, the chief University of Kentucky cardiothoracic surgeon whose surgery program was suspended last year for unspecified rea...

UK Healthcare says it must get even bigger, and expand its market area, to provide needed services to Kentucky

Posted by | 8:15 AM
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky 's health-care system has grown by leaps and bounds in th...

UK has its pediatric heart program under review; chief is on leave, and patients are being referred to other hospitals

Posted by | 9:04 AM
Kentucky Children's Hospital at the University of Kentucky is reviewing its cardio-thoracic surgery program and referring surgical pat...

Health care decisions by and for Medicare patients differ widely by place; Lexington big in back surgery, low in mastectomy

Posted by | 10:57 AM
All medicine involves decisions and, according to a new series of nine reports published by the Dartmouth Atlas Project , those decisions di...

UK music therapy helps manage surgical anxiety, pain, recovery

Posted by | 6:18 PM
A University of Kentucky study has found that music therapy can reduce pain before, during and after a surgical procedure, and shorten reco...

First heart-lung transplant in Ky. in 15 years performed at UK

Posted by | 11:46 AM
University of Kentucky surgeons performed Kentucky's first combined heart-lung transplant in 15 years this summer, UK announced today. ...