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KET offers program about diabetes prevention and control

Posted by | 5:16 PM
KET 's "Connections with Renee Shaw" is offering a program about diabetes prevention and control on KET2 Friday, Nov. 8 at 5 p...

Obamacare will work, Beshear promises on 'Meet the Press'

Posted by | 7:14 AM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Citing Kentucky examples, Gov. Steve Beshear promised a national audience on " Meet the Press " S...

KET program to feature citizens who work in three programs to improve the health of Kentucky children

Posted by | 1:14 PM
The next episode of  KET 's "Health Three60" series will be a program that features citizens who have made a difference in the...

Middle- and high-school students invited to create 30-second videos discouraging prescription drug abuse, win prizes in contest

Posted by | 7:37 AM
Attorney General Jack Conway and his Keep Kentucky Safe partners invite Kentucky middle- and high-school students to compete in the annual P...

KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community

Posted by | 8:03 PM
The rankings are in quartiles, or fourths of the 120 counties Kentuckians love the competition among their basketball and football teams. Bu...

Hard-hitting TV ads against smoking do motivate smokers, like one mother from Elizabethtown, to quit

Posted by | 11:56 AM
Hancock with CDC Director Tom Frieden A 38-year-old Elizabethtown mother's response to a federally funded anti-smoking advertising campa...

Children with TVs in their bedrooms are twice as likely to have extra fat, three times greater risk of heart disease and diabetes

Posted by | 10:49 AM
Kids who have TVs in their bedrooms are twice as likely to be fat and nearly three times as likely to be at risk for heart disease and di...

Health coalition asks Nickelodeon to stop marketing sugary and fatty snacks to children

Posted by | 10:12 AM
A coalition of health groups thinks maybe it's time to enlist SpongeBob in the childhood obesity fight. Earlier this week, the groups as...