On Sept. 6, 2023, the Markey Cancer Center (MCC) became Kentuckyās first and only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated…
On May 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for a new research…
On May. 9, 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that scientists have collaborated to produce the first…
On Feb. 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agricultureļ¾s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed…
On Aug. 6, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) annouced in MMWR that a study…
On Dec. 11, 2020, the USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories announced the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 (the…
On Oct. 29, 2020, AquaBounty Technologies announced that it had identified Mayfield, Kentucky as the potential location for…
On Apr. 15, 2020, Royal Philips and UK HealthCare, the clinical enterprise of the University of Kentucky, announced…
On Mar. 23, 2020, Acura Pharmaceuticals announced that Abuse Deterrent Pharma, its licensee of LTX-03 (Hydrocodone Bitartrate and…
On May 20, 2016, AquaBounty Technologies announced that Health Canada had concluded its review of the AquAdvantage Salmon…
On Nov. 19, 2015, AquaBounty Technologies announced the FDA has approved the Company’s New Animal Drug Application for…
On Jul. 12, 2013. the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center (MCC) was joined by national, state and…
On Jun. 7, 2007, years before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, a group of about 100…
In Oct. 1995, 70 scientists from 20 countries met in Lexington, Kentucky to make a plan for mapping…
On Dec. 12, 2018, the scientists behind the Horse Genome Project released scientific standards for genetic testing. The…
In 1978, the University of Kentucky (UK) Markey Cancer Foundation, previously the Ephraim McDowell Cancer Research Foundation, was…
In 1974, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began investigating liver cancer deaths in Louisville,…
On May 5, 1973 Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby in a record setting time of 1:59 2/5, a…
In 1935, Lawrence Kolb reported a series of studies on innovative treatment for drug addicts who were patients…
On Dec. 12, 1918, following a second spike in influenza cases especially among schoolchildren, Louisville Health Officer Dr….
On Nov. 6, 1918, following improved influenza case numbers, the Kentucky Board of Health lifted the closure order…
On Oct. 18, 1918, the Kentucky Board of Health ordered all saloons and soft drink stands to operate…
By Oct. 12, 1918, the Kentucky health department reported 2,300 cases of influenza, prompting volunteers to provide automobiles…
On Oct. 7, 1918, it was clear that Louisvilleās nascent influenza epidemic was spreading. USPHS officer Lieutenant R….
On Oct. 2, 1918, Kentucky Secretary of the state Board of Health Dr. Joseph N. McCormack made influenza…