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Hard-hitting TV ads against smoking do motivate smokers, like one mother from Elizabethtown, to quit
UK, with magnet of National Cancer Institute designation, attracts 4 researchers and their $17 million in funding from U of L
" A month after the University of Kentucky announced it is home to the state’s first National Cancer Institute -designated cancer cent...
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cancer,
lung cancer,
medical education,
research
Markey Cancer Center at UK gets National Cancer Institute designation, opening up new treatment options for patients
The University of Kentucky annouced Friday that its Markey Cancer Center has earned a prestigious National Cancer Institute designation. Wi...
CDC: Kentucky grossly underuses tobacco settlement money when it comes to tobacco prevention and cessation programs
Kentucky is not even remotely up to snuff on state tobacco-prevention programming. According to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Fo...
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emphysema,
lung cancer,
smoking,
tobacco,
tobacco prevention
American Lung Association calls state's tobacco-cessation benefit inadequate now that Medicaid is under managed care
Kentucky added a robust tobacco cessation benefit to its Medicaid program, only to lose much of it in 2011 by putting the program under mana...
Study: Raising cigarette taxes does curb even heavy smoking
The more you raise cigarette taxes, the less people smoke. That presumption was confirmed this week in a study by the Washington University ...
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cigarette tax,
cigarettes,
diabetes,
health costs,
lung cancer,
research,
smoking,
tobacco
Women who smoke triple their risk of dying early, but quitting early enough might just wipe out that risk
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heart disease,
lung cancer,
smoking,
stroke,
tobacco
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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...
