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New Study Underway to Explore Disease Risk Factors: Why are Those Born in the Rural South Less Healthy and Prone to Die Sooner?New Study Underway to Explore Disease Risk Factors: Why are Those Born in the Rural South Less Healthy and Prone to Die Sooner?
December 17, 2025
Researchers from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) are participating in a novel study to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the c …
Kentucky Core PI Interviewed on The Bridge Podcast
May 15, 2025
Dr. Stephanie Boone, the Kentucky Core State Principal Investigator, was recently featured on The Bridge podcast, hosted by Amelia Holliday and sponsored by the Kentucky Office of Rural Health. In the episode, Dr. Boone discusses the RURAL Study and it …
Kentucky Core PI Interview on WYMT-TV in Hazard, Kentucky
November 17, 2024
WYMT’s Steve Hensley interviewed Dr. Stephanie Boone, the Kentucky Core State PI, about the Rural Heart and Lung Study and why it’s being done with in Perry and Breathitt Counties on the Issues and Answers program.
NHLBI Announces Plan to Fund a Second Examination Cycle for the Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) Heart and Lung Study
November 17, 2024
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) plans to fund a second examination of participants in the RURAL Heart and Lung Study. The examination is expected to begin approximately January-February 2027 with a targeted sample size for examina …
Study Hiring a CT Technician in Kentucky
November 7, 2024
The RURAL Study is looking to hire a CT technologist who is licensed in the state of Kentucky to work in our mobile exam unit (MEU). Interested candidates should send resume to Mr. Mike Allen (Mike@AmeryAcademy.com). Please see the full job description …
Franklin Parish has highest amounts of heart and lung disease compared to rest of U.S. researchers want to know why
August 17, 2024
Pennington Biomedical Research Center is a part a study of heart and lung diseases and they just set up a site to collect research data in Franklin Parish. The study is funded by the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health …
RURAL Health and Lung Study Heads to Franklin Parish
August 17, 2024
The Risks Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal, or RURAL, Heart and Lung study will arrive in Louisiana’s Franklin Parish on Tuesday, Aug. 13. The study team, who were stationed in Assumption Parish starting in February 2024, are conducting a comprehens …
First-of-its-kind rural health research making a stop in Franklin Parish
August 17, 2024
A study team is traveling to Franklin Parish as part of a study designed to help researchers understand underlying health risks residents in rural communities face. The Risks Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) Heart and Lung study is looking t …
Heart disease is rampant in parts of the rural South. Researchers are hitting the road to learn why
August 17, 2024
Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research institutions have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural parts of the South to test and survey thousands of local residents. The goal: to understand why the rates of heart and lung d …