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Herald-Leader blasts UK for secrecy surrounding children's heart program and its efforts to rebuild it despite nearby competition
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8:59 AM
The Lexington Herald-Leader blasted the University of Kentucky in an editorial Sunday for "stonewalling questions about the decision ...
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New type of artificial knee, designed for individual patients, is being implanted at St. Joseph East in Lexington
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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 ...
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Petition drive from parents asks UK Healthcare to release mortality rates for cardiothoracic surgeries on children
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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...
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University of Kentucky
Chief of cardiothoracic surgery and pediatric heart program at UK, suspended from surgeries, takes job in Florida
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3:23 PM
Dr. Mark Plunkett, the chief University of Kentucky cardiothoracic surgeon whose surgery program was suspended last year for unspecified rea...
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University of Kentucky
UK Healthcare says it must get even bigger, and expand its market area, to provide needed services to Kentucky
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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...
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UK has its pediatric heart program under review; chief is on leave, and patients are being referred to other hospitals
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9:04 AM
Kentucky Children's Hospital at the University of Kentucky is reviewing its cardio-thoracic surgery program and referring surgical pat...
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Health care decisions by and for Medicare patients differ widely by place; Lexington big in back surgery, low in mastectomy
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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...
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UK music therapy helps manage surgical anxiety, pain, recovery
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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...
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First heart-lung transplant in Ky. in 15 years performed at UK
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11:46 AM
University of Kentucky surgeons performed Kentucky's first combined heart-lung transplant in 15 years this summer, UK announced today. ...
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