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Kentucky, in Diabetes Belt, needs to do more to keep percentage of residents with costly disease from rising, advocates say

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By Dr. Gilbert Friedell and Isaac Joyner World Diabetes Day is Nov. 14, and we urgently need to address this plague right here at home. Diab...

Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton

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U.S. Rep. Andy Barr U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic ...

Owsley men most likely in U.S. to be obese, Perry women most likely to die; Morgan women led nation in increasing exercise

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Men in Owsley County are the fattest in the United States, and women in Perry County have the lowest life expectancy, 72, according to an NB...

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...

New health ranking of counties places Oldham at top for second straight year; some counties had big jumps and drops

Posted by | 12:35 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report of the national county health rankings shows several Kentucky counties have improved in...

Study finds only counties in Appalachia, mostly in Kentucky, had increasing rates of death among both sexes as century turned

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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News More than 40 percent of counties saw increases in female death rates as the 21st Century began, while...

Deaths from drug overdoses in Kentucky hit new high in 2010; more than half involved prescription drugs

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Deaths from drug overdoses in Kentucky jumped to a new high in 2010, and "rose a staggering 296 percent from 2000 to 2010," Bill E...