“We thought it was a spider bite — we didn’t think much of it.” That’s what Richmond residents Dynae Utz and her husband, L.T., thought when they first saw the lump on their 6-year-old son Lewis' leg. Then the lump got bigger, to the point where surgery was needed to remove it.
UK is a site for the groundbreaking AHEAD study, the first-ever clinical trial to test the effect of lecanemab (investigational antibody) in people who have no cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but in whom biomarker tests indicate amyloid is present in the brain, known as “preclinical” AD.
The motivation driving the work of Pete Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., is personal. His grandmother, Sylvia Becker, died with Alzheimer's disease, and he says his mother then grew terrified of developing the disease.
Chris Lyons is a details guy. In his exhibition of photographs on display outside the DanceBlue Kentucky Children's Hospital Hematology/Oncology Clinic, you see his appreciation for the details in buildings, patterns in nature and the shapes in light and shadow.
Despite the leaps and advances made in cancer treatments over the past few decades, sometimes patients still discover that they’ve exhausted all other available options.
Serotonin is commonly known as the "feel-good" chemical, a neurotransmitter in the brain that plays a large role in elevating a person's mood. But for 68-year-old Kentucky native Geri McDowell, it's the hormone that nearly took her life.
