Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life

Pike County officials urge newly eligible residents to sign up for health insurance before Dec. 15

Posted by | 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...

Northern Kentucky health board supports statewide smoking ban

Posted by | 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...

Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says

Posted by | 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...

Effort for kids' dental health in Clark, started by volunteers and continued by health department with tax, earns national award

Posted by | 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...

Adair County Hospital District files Chapter 9 bankruptcy

Posted by | 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...

Leaders in Mayfield, a town with a rich tobacco heritage, approve smoking ban

Posted by | 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...

Health departments raise, or try to raise, tax rates to offset state cuts, higher benefit costs and Medicaid payment problems

Posted by | 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...

Beshear endorses statewide smoking ban as bill moves to the House floor; Williamsburg adopts its own ban

Posted by | 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,...

Williamsburg in line to pass smoking ban next month

Posted by | 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...

Christian Co. Health Dept. to stop providing cancer screens, contraceptives to residents of other counties

Posted by | 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...

Study: Smoke-free workplace leads to fewer heart attacks

Posted by | 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...