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FDA wants to limit number of hydrocodone refills available without another doctor visit; approves pure version of drug
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10:56 AM
"The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter controls on how doctors prescribe the most commonly used narcotic ...
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Conway says ruling in his Oxycontin lawsuit means he will seek settlement of $100 million or more
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11:58 AM
Attorney General Jack Conway says he wants Purdue Pharma to settle for $100 million or more after it missed a deadline to respond to his ar...
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Anthem gift will let Kentucky Homeplace expand diabetes self-management and education project to counties in Western Ky.
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10:25 AM
Kentucky Homeplace has been awarded a second gift of $150,000 from the Anthem Foundation to continue its diabetes self-management educatio...
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UK researcher calls for change in state law to allow syringe exchange program to curb hepatitis C epidemic in Eastern Ky.
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6:05 AM
Despite the benefits associated with syringe- or needle-exchange programs in preventing the spread of hepatitis C, Kentucky law still prohib...
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UK's Gill Heart Institute joins Appalachian Regional Healthcare to advance specialty heart care in Eastern Kentucky
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12:17 PM
Appalachian Regional Healthcare , the Appalachian Heart Center and UK HealthCare’s Gill Heart Institute announced a new collaboration to d...
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UK joins Eastern Ky. Healthcare Coalition, giving it five hospitals
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9:27 AM
The University of Kentucky and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., are joining the Eastern Kentucky Healthcare Coalition , ori...
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Pikeville Medical Center joins Mayo Clinic Care Network
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5:33 PM
Pikeville Medical Center President Walter May and Dr. Stephen Lange, Mayo Clinic's Southeast medical director Pikeville Medical Center ...
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Study suggesting that coal is a cause of health problems in E. Ky. is disputed by industry and politicians, defended by researcher
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11:24 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A heated debate centers on new research showing that residents in Floyd County, where coal is strippe...
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Study finds only counties in Appalachia, mostly in Kentucky, had increasing rates of death among both sexes as century turned
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2:39 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News More than 40 percent of counties saw increases in female death rates as the 21st Century began, while...
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Poll shows depth of prescription drug abuse in Kentucky
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2:41 PM
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News One-third of Kentucky adults have friends or relatives who have experienced problems fro...
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Pike court will keep lawsuit county and attorney general filed against Purdue Pharma over damage done by its OxyContin
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12:25 PM
A state court will hear the Kentucky attorney general's 2007 lawsuit against OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma , against the wishes o...
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UK, ARH planning efforts against high rate of heart-disease deaths and limited availability of proper food in Perry County
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6:41 PM
The death rate from heart disease is nearly twice as high in Perry County (Wikipedia map) as in Kentucky as a whole, so there's no bett...
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...