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Every Kentucky county has a local group working on health issues, foundation finds in compiling Health Coalitions Directory
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For the first time, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has documented that every Kentucky county has a local group working on health iss...
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Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The rollout of the insurance-buying section of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started Oct...
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KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community
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The rankings are in quartiles, or fourths of the 120 counties Kentuckians love the competition among their basketball and football teams. Bu...
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National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month: Policy changes underway in Ky. to lower its very high childhood obesity rate
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11:54 AM
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and a number of policy changes are underway to combat the increasing trend of overw...
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Statewide forum on community efforts to promote children's health will be held in Northern Kentucky Monday, Sept. 16
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"The goal is simple, the challenge difficult – how to ensure that the current generation of children in Kentucky grows up healthier t...
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Seven Ky. communities get grants to reduce risks for chronic diseases among children and 'Invest in Kentucky's Future'
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Seven diverse Kentucky communities are getting money to reduce the risk of chronic disease among Kentucky's youth. The initial grants an...
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Kentucky expands Medicaid reimbursement for telehealth services, but lets managed-care firms keep authority over fees
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Recent changes in Kentucky's telehealth regulations are making it easier for providers around the...
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Working with a local, regional or state health coalition? A simple step can help make healthy changes in Kentucky
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The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is asking you to help update last year's Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory, a list of local gro...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky seeks nominations for its board of directors and Community Advisory Committee
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11:58 AM
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is accepting nominations for qualified persons to join its board of directors and Community Advisory ...
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Poll shows strong support for medical marijuana in Kentucky
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A statewide poll has found that 78 percent of Kentucky adults support the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes if recommended by their do...
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Poll shows more than half of Ky. adults have no dental insurance and many go without essential dental care
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Routine dental care is essential to overall health, but a new poll shows 1.7 million Kentucky adults do not have dental insurance. That is m...
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Kentuckians tell pollsters they are concerned about air quality, but don't seem to put their concern into action
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2:08 PM
A recent poll shows that more than half of Kentucky adults, especially women, are concerned about air quality in their community, but only 4...
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Most Kentucky adults don't know that drug overdose is the leading cause of death in the state, but those in the east do
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Drug overdoses, driven largely by prescription drug abuse, overtook motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of unintentional deaths in ...
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Poll shows Kentucky health-care providers often fail to discuss HIV testing with patients
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2:51 PM
A new poll suggests that most Kentucky health-care providers follow guidelines for discussing HIV screening with their patients, despite the...
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Survey suggests Great Recession has harmed the health of Kentuckians
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A recent poll shows continuation of a trend threatening Kentucky's overall health: as the number of Kentuckians living in poverty goes u...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky gives UK $1 million for endowed co-chairs in rural health policy
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Tyrone "Ty" Borders in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health's Department of Health Services Management, and Bra...
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Poll finds four out of five Kentuckians are comfortable seeing a nurse practitioner or physician assistant for routine care
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New poll figures indicate the majority of Kentuckians are comfortable seeing a nurse practitioner, physician assistant or mid-level clinicia...
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28% of Ky. adults 18-64 say they lack health coverage; 41% lacked it sometime in last year; employer coverage down since '08
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1:38 PM
Nearly three in 10 working-age adults in Kentucky are not covered by any form of health insurance, and the number who get health insurance f...
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Ky. parents strongly favor increasing school dropout age, a step that could make future high-school students healthier
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1:52 PM
A statewide poll has found that Kentucky parents overwhelmingly favor increasing the state’s school dropout age, and doing so might help fut...
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Molly Burchett is new chief writer for Kentucky Health News
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Kentucky Health News welcomes a new reporter, writer and blogger: Molly Burchett, a master's student in health communication at the Univ...
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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 ...