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Prescriptions for better health care and health: empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration
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3:30 AM
By Melissa Patrick University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications The importance of empowering patients, increasing heal...
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Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
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5:15 PM
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is th...
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Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton
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8:31 AM
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic ...
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School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues
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11:33 AM
School districts in Kentucky have long relied on county health departments for school nurses, but state budget cuts and problems with Medica...
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LaRue County High School collaborates with university and nursing home to offer nurse-aide training course
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10:54 AM
Fifteen students at LaRue County High School have signed up for a new nurse's aide class offered in coordination with Campbellsville Un...
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Frontier Nursing University in Hyden helps bring better family health care to rural America with distance learning
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6:20 AM
Midwives and nurse practitioners who recently graduated from Frontier Nursing University in Hyden address the unique challenges of rural ar...
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health care access
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health care law
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midwifery
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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rural health
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rural medicine
School nurses start getting scarcer, due to Medicaid problems
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11:36 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Students in many Kentucky counties will find it harder to see a school nurse due to changes in the st...
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"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
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Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
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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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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
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On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2
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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...