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Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life
Draft plan for a statewide campaign for better health gets endorsement, much talk at Friedell Committee annual meeting
Friedell Committee will consider what it will take for Kentucky to become a healthier state at meeting Sunday and Monday
What will it take for Kentucky to become a healthier state? That will be the question at the fall meeting of the Friedell Committee for Heal...
Kentucky ranks high in prescription drug abuse, but also is a national leader in efforts to fight it, state-by-state analysis says
KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community
Just-released figures show uninsured by county, age, income
Smokers, take note: Chinese meditation technique offers hope
In 2010, Kentucky had the second highest rate of adult smokers in the U.S., with 24.8 percent of the adult population -- or 1.1 million adul...
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drugs,
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rural health,
smoking,
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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...
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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county health,
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hypertension,
obesity,
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State health department asks Kentuckians to help improve the state's health by commenting on improvement plan by Aug. 1
Yes, Kentucky ranks first in smoking and cancer deaths, 10th in obesity and poorly in other health measurements, but Kentuckians can help i...
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Kids Count report shows where children in your county and school district rank, in a huge number of measures
U.S. adult smoking rate dips to 18 percent; when state rates come out, will Kentucky still have the country's highest?
New report ranks Kentucky 45th in overall senior health
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health rankings,
seniors
New health ranking of counties places Oldham at top for second straight year; some counties had big jumps and drops
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county health,
health outcomes,
health rankings
Study finds only counties in Appalachia, mostly in Kentucky, had increasing rates of death among both sexes as century turned
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women,
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Kentucky's well-being ranks next to last, just above West Virginia
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poll
Lack of statewide smoking ban represents one part of Kentucky's struggle to deal with tobacco use and the health issues it creates
Beshear endorses statewide smoking ban as bill moves to the House floor; Williamsburg adopts its own ban
Gov. Steve Beshear endorsed a statewide smoking ban yesterday at a Frankfort rally to push the bill that would enact the ban. "Beshear,...
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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...
