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Pike County officials urge newly eligible residents to sign up for health insurance before Dec. 15
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8:56 PM
A call to action. That's what Pike County officials are calling their efforts to encourage citizens to sign up for health care insurance...
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Northern Kentucky health board supports statewide smoking ban
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10:10 AM
The main health board in Northern Kentucky, where local smoking bans have stirred much controversy. has endorsed the idea of a statewide ban...
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Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
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9:35 AM
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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Effort for kids' dental health in Clark, started by volunteers and continued by health department with tax, earns national award
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8:58 AM
"A community effort to fight tooth decay in children in Clark County has been named a model for the nation," veteran journalist Al...
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Adair County Hospital District files Chapter 9 bankruptcy
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7:54 PM
In a move perhaps unprecedented in Kentucky, the Adair County Hospital District has voted to file for protection under Chapter 9 of the fed...
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Leaders in Mayfield, a town with a rich tobacco heritage, approve smoking ban
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2:02 PM
UPDATE, July 9: The ban passed 5-4 on second reading. It will take effect in 2014 and "excludes spaces used primarily for sleeping such...
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Health departments raise, or try to raise, tax rates to offset state cuts, higher benefit costs and Medicaid payment problems
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11:06 AM
Some county health departments are trying, and others may try, to increase property-tax rates to make up for Medicaid shortfalls, program cu...
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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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Williamsburg in line to pass smoking ban next month
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2:00 PM
An ordinance imposing a smoking ban in Williamsburg is ready for a City Council vote. The council listened Monday to the first reading of th...
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Christian Co. Health Dept. to stop providing cancer screens, contraceptives to residents of other counties
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6:58 PM
As of Jan. 1, the Christian County Health Department will not provide contraceptives or cancer screening to indigent patients if they do n...
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Study: Smoke-free workplace leads to fewer heart attacks
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9:11 AM
Mayo Clinic researchers have found a 33 percent drop in heart attack rates in a Minnesota county after public smoking bans were enacted. Thi...
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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...
"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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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...
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...
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 ...