Clinical trial network aims to speed up development of effective treatments...
The multisite international Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trial Research Network (FSHD CTRN) is led by researchers at KU Medical Center and the University of Rochester Medical Center.
View ArticleKU Medical Center assists community partners in launching campaign against...
The University of Kansas Medical Center and community partners across 10 Kansas counties are launching a multimedia campaign “Community Workers Beat the Virus” to encourage COVID-19 testing and...
View ArticleStudy to assess post-vax COVID-19 antibodies in people with cancer
The goal of the study is to build on early knowledge of how the COVID-19 vaccine works in patients with cancer who, depending on the type of treatment they are undergoing, may have a suppressed or...
View ArticleProfessor pivots from Kenya to Kansas (and back again) to serve global health...
KU Medical Center Professor Sarah Finocchario Kessler adapted a program she used in her HIV research in Africa to help health departments in Wyandotte and Johnson counties as they assisted those with...
View ArticleDementia researchers issue urgent call for more diversity in clinical trial...
Dementia researchers issue urgent call for more diversity in clinical trial participation
View ArticleEarly trial results indicate Yescarta CAR-T therapy improves survival for...
Yescarta is 60% more effective than the current standard of care in treating people with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) who did not respond well to, or relapsed after, the first line of treatment,...
View ArticleInternational panel of experts releases first consistent guidelines for...
Children and teenagers who survive cancer can have problems with their bone health later in life because cancer treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy can reduce bone mineral density (BMD).
View ArticleStudy published in NEJM shows breakthrough drug can benefit more people with...
According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-led by Deepika Polineni, M.D., MPH, an associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at...
View ArticleKU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center receives $15 million and second...
The University of Kansas Medical Center has announced that the National Institute on Aging has renewed the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s (KU ADRC) national designation. The...
View ArticleTSCORE LIFT program to create health science learning opportunities for...
The program connects high school teachers at Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence and Hays school districts with local health systems and university faculty so that they can work together to create a...
View ArticleKU School of Nursing ranks 22nd on U.S. News Best Colleges ranking
U.S. News and World Report in its 2022 Best Colleges list ranked the University of Kansas School of Nursing 22nd among other public colleges and universities surveyed that offer a Bachelor of Science...
View ArticleResearch at KU Medical Center explores effects of obesity on health and COVID-19
For people who are overweight, obese or excessively obese, the threat of COVID-19 looms large. So, University of Kansas Medical Center researchers are testing obesity as a variable in a clinical trial...
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