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Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life
Life Lessons from Cancer encourages those with cancer to build a network of support
First diabetes educator license is issued in Kentucky
UK is first in U.S. to conduct clinical trial for new Parkinson's treatment that shows improvement in all five patients so far
New guidelines for cholesterol management spark controversy; faulty risk calculator could lead to over-prescribing statins
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released new guidelines for cholesterol management, a new formula ...
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cholesterol,
exercise,
health education,
heart disease,
stroke,
weight management
Great American Smokeout is Thursday, Nov. 21, featuring supportive characters to share on social media and a Twitter chat
National Rural Health Day to be held Nov. 21, including webinars on current topics
Prescriptions for better health care and health: empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration
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Hospitals,
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KET offers program about diabetes prevention and control
KET 's "Connections with Renee Shaw" is offering a program about diabetes prevention and control on KET2 Friday, Nov. 8 at 5 p...
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health education,
prevention,
television
Information session on state health insurance exchange to be offered at Paducah Thursday, Nov, 7
The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky's online health in...
Anthem gift will let Kentucky Homeplace expand diabetes self-management and education project to counties in Western Ky.
Study shows talking with college students about binge drinking makes them think about it
College students who hear warnings about binge drinking from family or friends are more likely to be concerned about their own alcohol use, ...
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college,
education,
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parenting,
psychology
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, ...
Ky. Rural Health Association seeks nominations by Aug. 20 for annual award honoring health service to rural Kentuckians
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is seeking nominations for this year's recipient of the Dan Martin Award, an annual honor for an...
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patients,
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rural health,
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Employers welcome delay in coverage mandate, but individual mandate remains and many uninsured people are unaware of it
Free HIV testing available from health departments and community-based health groups in June; key to AIDS prevention
In honor of National HIV Testing Day on June 27, community-based organizations and local health departments are hosting free HIV testing thr...
Covington schools show 'Fitness Rocks' by lowering body mass, lifting the bars of nutrition, wellness and academic achievement
UK HealthCare hosts 'Women, It's About You' conference June 1
On June 1 UK HealthCare will present its fifth annual "Women, It’s About You" conference, which is designed to educate women with...
CaldWELL County group campaigns for smoking ban
A committee dedicated to the wellness of Caldwell County, which makes the most of the county's name, is pushing for a smoking ban. The ...
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wellness
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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...
