Since the completion of the Pikeville Medical Center Laboratory expansion and the addition of the region’s only automated lab line, many tests that were previously sent out for processing are now run in-house. This means faster processing and faster results for patients who may need to begin treatment. These added tests can detect rheumatoid arthritis,
Sunday, December 1 is World AIDS Day, which is seen by many medical professionals as a day to show support for patients living with HIV and remember those lives claimed by the disease. It is also a day to educate the public. Fadi Al Akhrass, MD, PMC Medical Director of Infectious Disease and Infection Control
Representatives from Lawson Cancer Center (LCC) recently traveled to Lexington to accept a grant to provide early detection screenings for lung cancer. Thanks to the generosity of the Lexington Cancer Foundation, the $15,000 dollar grant will allow 125 people at a higher risk for developing lung cancer to receive a low-dose CT scan at no
Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) physicians are observing a national effort aimed at targeting antibiotic resistance. Be Antibiotics Aware is a national effort intended to help fight antibiotic resistance and improve antibiotic prescribing and use. Antibiotic resistance happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. That
