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Every Kentucky county has a local group working on health issues, foundation finds in compiling Health Coalitions Directory
Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business
KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month: Policy changes underway in Ky. to lower its very high childhood obesity rate
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and a number of policy changes are underway to combat the increasing trend of overw...
Statewide forum on community efforts to promote children's health will be held in Northern Kentucky Monday, Sept. 16
"The goal is simple, the challenge difficult – how to ensure that the current generation of children in Kentucky grows up healthier t...
Seven Ky. communities get grants to reduce risks for chronic diseases among children and 'Invest in Kentucky's Future'
Kentucky expands Medicaid reimbursement for telehealth services, but lets managed-care firms keep authority over fees
Working with a local, regional or state health coalition? A simple step can help make healthy changes in Kentucky
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is asking you to help update last year's Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory, a list of local gro...
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky seeks nominations for its board of directors and Community Advisory Committee
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is accepting nominations for qualified persons to join its board of directors and Community Advisory ...
Poll shows strong support for medical marijuana in Kentucky
Poll shows more than half of Ky. adults have no dental insurance and many go without essential dental care
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...
Kentuckians tell pollsters they are concerned about air quality, but don't seem to put their concern into action
Most Kentucky adults don't know that drug overdose is the leading cause of death in the state, but those in the east do
Poll shows Kentucky health-care providers often fail to discuss HIV testing with patients
Survey suggests Great Recession has harmed the health of Kentuckians
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky gives UK $1 million for endowed co-chairs in rural health policy
Poll finds four out of five Kentuckians are comfortable seeing a nurse practitioner or physician assistant for routine care
28% of Ky. adults 18-64 say they lack health coverage; 41% lacked it sometime in last year; employer coverage down since '08
Ky. parents strongly favor increasing school dropout age, a step that could make future high-school students healthier
A statewide poll has found that Kentucky parents overwhelmingly favor increasing the state’s school dropout age, and doing so might help fut...
Molly Burchett is new chief writer for Kentucky Health News
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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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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
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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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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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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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
