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LEXINGTON, Ky. With their legs folded in the yoga stance called Lotus pose, sisters Anayia and Armani Happy sat knee-to-knee on Anayia’s hospital bed, tapping the silver cylinders on sets of Indonesian xylophones. After a few initial strikes of their mallets, the Happy sisters were entranced with the mellow sound produced by a gentle tap on these foreign instruments.

LEXINGTON, Ky. The adage, “build it, and they will come,” didn’t apply when former pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) nurse Kristyn Mickley and the Reach Haiti medical mission broke ground on a health clinic in the secluded mountains of Haiti. An estimated 40,000 patients living in a medically underserved region of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere were already in dire need of basic medical care.

LEXINGTON, Ky. The name Stanton Glantz is revered by community health advocates and dreaded by the tobacco industry. The University of California-San Francisco professor and distinguished tobacco control researcher led the movement to call out deceptive marketing messages disseminated by Big Tobacco companies and expose the dangers of tobacco products during the 1990s.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Arnett, a genetic epidemiologist who joined the UK College of Public Health as dean in January 2016, discussed the task of bringing precision medicine to fruition in Kentucky’s populations during her keynote address, “Personalized Medicine and Population Health.”. Arnett defined precision medicine as an individualized approach to disease treatment and prevention that attempts to “maximize effectiveness by accounting genetic makeup, lifestyle factors and environment.”.

ATLANTA, Ga. The spread of prescription drug and heroin abuse in America has escalated to the status of a national epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported more deaths from drug overdose than car crashes in 2014. The crisis is amplified in Kentucky, where an estimated 1,000 people die every year from opioid or heroin-related drug overdose.

LEXINGTON, Ky. In his 46 years, Gordon Lester has never experienced the satisfaction of ordering his first-choice item off a restaurant menu. The native of Russell Springs, Kentucky, has never bit into a crunchy chicken wing or savored a hamburger hot off the grill. He’s resisted flavorful foods and missed out on memorable family meals because his wellness and mental capacity depended on it — until now.

LEXINGTON, Ky. When an individual with a substance abuse disorder reaches out for help, the opportunity for intervention is transient. “That moment when somebody is willing to go to treatment is actually a very fleeting moment in time,” said Alex Elswick, a University of Kentucky graduate student who is in long-term recovery from heroin addiction.

LEXINGTON, Ky. With her tiny body too vulnerable to withstand the world outside her mother’s womb, infant Emma Lewis continued to grow and develop inside an incubator during the first four days of her life. But the life-preserving incubator at Kentucky Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) also separated Emma from her mother’s nurturing touch, which plays an important role in comforting and strengthening newborns.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Pediatricians routinely examine bangs, bruises and bone fractures — the standard acute injuries resulting from normal childhood activity. But in rare cases, a pediatrician must also question whether a child’s injury was the consequence of an accident or a sign of physical abuse or maltreatment.

LEXINGTON, Ky. University of Kentucky Provost Tim Tracy has selected Donna Arnett, associate dean at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health and former president of the American Heart Association, as the next dean of the UK College of Public Health. Fostering a spirit of research collaboration across schools and disciplines, Arnett has served as the chair of the UAB School of Public Health’s epidemiology department since 2004.

LEXINGTON, Ky. When nursing student Taylor Davis entered Cameron Waters' hospital room at 7 a.m., the 20-year-old cystic fibrosis patient sent a strong message he wasn't in the mood for a visitor. The message was delivered in the form of a middle finger pointed in her direction. Davis, standing at 4-foot-11, wasn't discouraged by this defensive gesture.