Philip Westgate, acting chair and professor in the Department of Biostatistics in the UK College of Public Health, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

Thomas Prisinzano, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the UK College of Pharmacy, has been honored as a 2024-25 University Research Professor.

First Baptist Church Frankfort opened its doors to more than 500 individuals in the community to put an emphasis on their well-being.

A research project focused on addressing the opioid crisis in Kentucky and three other states reported its primary results in the New England Journal of Medicine.

UK Research welcomed Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., the NIH director, to the Healthy Kentucky Research Building — a space dedicated to enabling multidisciplinary teams to find solutions to reduce the health disparities greatly impacting Kentucky.

The industries that suffered the most overdose deaths were surprising, according to research conducted by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) at UK's College of Public Health

UK doctoral student Kara Cook was recently awarded a Substance Use Priority Research Area (SUPRA) Graduate Student Grant to explore the unintended consequences of classifying controlled substances.

That’s according to a new RAND study, co-authored by Julie Cerel, Ph.D., professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky, and published in the American Journal of Public Health.

An unusual spike in drug overdoses in Lexington, recently has spurred the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department to advise people, especially those with substance use disorder or those connected to someone with it, to carry naloxone.