UK physicians discuss the clinical trial of a new treatment strategy for Parkinson’s disease that, if successful, could drastically change future treatment of the disease and possibly halt or reverse brain degeneration.

Craig Rush and his team run the Laboratory of Human Behavioral Pharmacology to screen medications that can possibly block the effects of drugs so that people will become less dependent on them and/or stop using them altogether.

The University of Kentucky recently accomplished the equivalent of “triple crown” in the academic medical world, becoming only the 22nd medical center in the country to have a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation, a federally funded Alzheimer's Disease Center, and a Clinical and Translational Science Awards grant.

The CCTS will host a town hall and information session that will feature information on expanded services, small grants and pilot awards, and educational programs.

The UK Markey Cancer Center is the 68th medical center in the country to receive this prestigious designation, and is the only NCI-designated cancer center in the state of Kentucky.

CTAC is dedicated to the enhancement of the health and well-being of children and their families through research, service and dissemination of information about child abuse and trauma.

In this video, viewers will hear from top clinicians and scientists, as well as Kentuckians who volunteer as participants in trials, about the importance of clinical research in furthering the advancement of health care at UK, across the Commonwealth and around the world.

Dr. Philip Kern, director of the CCTS and director of the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center, was the guest on March 4's "UK at the Half."

Researchers at UK are studying every aspect of exercise — from the test tube to the treadmill — to help Kentuckians exercise regularly, safely, and in the most beneficial ways.

The University of Kentucky's Dr. Susanne Arnold and colleagues were awarded a grant by the Department of Defense to study potential environmental reasons for the high lung cancer rates in Eastern Kentucky.