Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life
Some schools let kids with live head lice stay; policy change has some Kentucky parents scratching their heads
Herald-Leader blasts UK for secrecy surrounding children's heart program and its efforts to rebuild it despite nearby competition
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children,
children's health,
heart disease,
open government,
open records,
surgery
Safety tips for trick or treating, Halloween parties
The state Department for Public Health offers these food safety tips to help you have a safe Halloween: Avoid having children snack while t...
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children,
children's health
School nurses are an unfunded mandate for schools, which are picking up more of their cost as health department budgets shrink
KET program to feature citizens who work in three programs to improve the health of Kentucky children
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
Attorney General Jack Conway and his Keep Kentucky Safe partners invite Kentucky middle- and high-school students to compete in the annual P...
Fewer teens report using tobacco and abusing prescription drugs, but some attribute latter trend to increase in heroin use
Study says obese children (Kentucky's a leader in that) may have quadruple the risk of having high blood pressure as adults
Ensure children's eye safety during fall sports season
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children,
children's health,
eye care,
injuries,
injury prevention,
optometry,
safety,
sports safety
Effort for kids' dental health in Clark, started by volunteers and continued by health department with tax, earns national award
"A community effort to fight tooth decay in children in Clark County has been named a model for the nation," veteran journalist Al...
Harlan County Schools look for school-nurse help after county health department, which had done it for free, asks for $10,000
http://www.harlandaily.com/view/full_story/23219874/article-Board-tackles-nurse-issue? Update: http://www.harlandaily.com/view/full_story/2...
U.S. News gives Kosair Children's Hospital a national ranking; 11 other Kentucky hospitals make 'high-performing' list
Each year, U.S. News and World Report publishes its "Best Hospitals" guide for people seeking a high level of specialty care. The...
Community-based solutions to childhood obesity show signs of progress elsewhere; will Kentucky pick up on them?
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News For decades, researchers reported with alarm the increasing trend of overweight children in America, ...
Eye exams are now required for children ages 3 to 6 when first starting public school or preschool
Add eye exams to your back-to-school checklist, because state law now requires children aged 3 through 6 who are entering a public school or...
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children,
children's health,
eye care,
insurance,
insurance coverage,
Medicaid,
state law
Chief of cardiothoracic surgery and pediatric heart program at UK, suspended from surgeries, takes job in Florida
Tips to keep children safe from the dangers of summer heat
While enjoying time with family on the boat, at church picnics, in the backyard or at the beach, be sure to keep kids safe during the summer...
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children,
children's health,
heatstroke,
safety,
sports safety,
water
Summer lunch programs promote healthy eating habits for students, their families and the entire community
Kentucky will soon require simple screening at birth to detect silent killers of newborns
Parents should walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to healthy eating and exercise, study shows
Eye doctors warn about danger from fireworks, even sparklers; optometrists provide safety tips
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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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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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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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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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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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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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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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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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
