FRANKFORT, Ky. a ' Gov. Steve Beshear today announced the following judicial appointments to serve until the general election on Nov.

A student who grew up craving books and learning in eastern Kentucky has won one of the world's most coveted academic awards.

Main Category: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Also Included In: Medical Devices / Diagnostics A new generation of implanted devices that help a failing heart function properly is significantly more effective than the previous version, making these new devices an appropriate permanent therapy for many of the more than 5 million Americans who suffer ...

A year ago, Eric Nunnally was working in his father's laboratory. Today, he's a student at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, wearing scrubs, dissecting a human body and learning to drill a cavity prep.

A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight students take a fitness course to graduate has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.

The tobacco ban at the University of Kentucky includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes.

From the Diabetes and Obesity Center, Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Ky.

Starting Thursday, Kentucky's two largest universities are declaring themselves smoke-free, drastically restricting cigarette smoking to create healthier campuses.

A federal grand jury issued a new indictment against Karen Sypher. She is charged with trying to extort millions from Rick Pitino, the University of Louisville men's basketball coach.

United States Attorney Candace G. Hill and Timothy D. Cox, Special Agent in Charge, Louisville Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, jointly announce that a six-count Superseding Indictment was returned today by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in the Louisville Division of the Western District of Kentucky against Karen Sypher, of Louisville, ...

Thoratec Corporation , a world leader in device-based mechanical circulatory support therapies to save, support and restore failing hearts, said that data released from the Destination Therapy pivotal trial for the HeartMate II left ventricular assist system demonstrate that the device achieved statistically superior results over the HeartMate XVE, ...

About 950 vaccinations for swine flu or the H1N1 virus will be given to University of Louisville students Monday.

In just two days the University of Louisville will start its controversial campus wide smoking ban.

Around 5:00 p.m. Monday evening, several cars were involved in an accident near the corner of Eastern Parkway and Sherry Street near the University of Louisville campus.

The news of another Kentucky swine flu death comes as Metro Louisville gears up to give thousands of people the H1N1 vaccine.

At the last of 10 drive-through bays at Wednesday's H1N1 vaccination clinic, nursing student Erika Wooldridge leaned into a vehicle's passenger seat to vaccinate a crying 19-month-old Lucia Ramirez.

More than 19,000 people received free H1N1 flu shots over two days at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.

Just one week after the shootings that left 13 people dead and dozens more injured at Fort Hood in Texas, we still wonder how such a thing could happen.

Sharon LaRue came to the National Summit to End Domestic Violence for new ideas to help students at the University of Louisville - among the many workshops were ways to address stalking and using student athletes to help end violence against women.

CU to host Senator Mitch McConnell for book signing By Christina Miller, student news writer CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY -U.S. Sen.