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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.
Despite the benefits associated with syringe- or needle-exchange programs in preventing the spread of hepatitis C, Kentucky law still prohib...
Kentucky expands list of permanent locations for safe disposal of unneeded or expired prescription medications
As prescription painkillers become harder to get and abuse, heroin replaces them in Eastern and Southern Kentucky
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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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...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
