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Draft plan for a statewide campaign for better health gets endorsement, much talk at Friedell Committee annual meeting
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3:35 PM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A statewide committee of volunteers is on target with its plan for a campaign to make Kentucky a healthier ...
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cancer
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diabetes
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health rankings
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health status
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obesity
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prevention
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smoking
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tobacco
Friedell Committee will consider what it will take for Kentucky to become a healthier state at meeting Sunday and Monday
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8:39 PM
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...
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health insurance
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health rankings
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insurance exchange
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managed care
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Medicaid
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Obamacare
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state budget
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state government
Kentucky ranks high in prescription drug abuse, but also is a national leader in efforts to fight it, state-by-state analysis says
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7:46 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report finds many states do not have effective strategies in place to fight prescription drug a...
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addiction
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drug abuse
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drug treatment
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drugs
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health rankings
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prescription drug abuse
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prescription drugs
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public health
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state government
KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community
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8:03 PM
The rankings are in quartiles, or fourths of the 120 counties Kentuckians love the competition among their basketball and football teams. Bu...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
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health journalism
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health rankings
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television
Just-released figures show uninsured by county, age, income
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3:57 PM
People in Logan, Magoffin, Casey, Todd, Menifee, Adair, Monroe, Edmonson and McCreary counties are more likely to lack health insurance than...
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Affordable Care Act
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health insurance
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health rankings
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health reform
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insurance exchange
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Obamacare
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Smokers, take note: Chinese meditation technique offers hope
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9:03 AM
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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addiction
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drugs
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health rankings
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rural health
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smoking
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tobacco
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tobacco prevention
U.S. News gives Kosair Children's Hospital a national ranking; 11 other Kentucky hospitals make 'high-performing' list
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1:36 PM
Each year, U.S. News and World Report publishes its "Best Hospitals" guide for people seeking a high level of specialty care. The...
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cancer
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cardiac care
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children
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children's health
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health care industry
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health rankings
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heart health
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Hospitals
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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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8:56 AM
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...
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county health
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health rankings
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hypertension
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obesity
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physical activity
State health department asks Kentuckians to help improve the state's health by commenting on improvement plan by Aug. 1
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4:04 PM
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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health rankings
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public health
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state government
Kids Count report shows where children in your county and school district rank, in a huge number of measures
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9:01 PM
Conditions have improved slightly for Kentucky children, especially in education and health, and the state's overall well-being ranking ...
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alcohol
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alcohol abuse
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children
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children's health
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drug abuse
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education
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health insurance
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health rankings
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poverty
U.S. adult smoking rate dips to 18 percent; when state rates come out, will Kentucky still have the country's highest?
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7:58 AM
CDC chart; confidence interval (or error margin) means that 95 percent of the time, the result for the entire U.S. population would be with...
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cigarettes
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health costs
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smoking
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smoking ban
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tobacco-free
New report ranks Kentucky 45th in overall senior health
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7:45 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Everyone dreams about retirement being a happy, healthy time to finally settle down, take time for yo...
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health rankings
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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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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...
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county health
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health outcomes
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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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2:39 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News More than 40 percent of counties saw increases in female death rates as the 21st Century began, while...
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Appalachia
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county health
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education
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health rankings
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poverty
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rural health
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women
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women's health
Kentucky's well-being ranks next to last, just above West Virginia
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6:37 PM
Kentucky ranks next to last in the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being index, just ahead of West Virginia. The Bluegrass State ranked last ...
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health rankings
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physical activity
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Lack of statewide smoking ban represents one part of Kentucky's struggle to deal with tobacco use and the health issues it creates
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9:24 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As the bill for a statewide smoking ban lies on its deathbed in the General Assembly, new federal da...
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health rankings
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legislature
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smoking
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smoking ban
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smoking bans
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state government; General Assembly
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tobacco
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tobacco prevention
Beshear endorses statewide smoking ban as bill moves to the House floor; Williamsburg adopts its own ban
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11:52 AM
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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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
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...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
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...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2
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...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
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...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
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...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...