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Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life
Draft plan for a statewide campaign for better health gets endorsement, much talk at Friedell Committee annual meeting
Kentucky, in Diabetes Belt, needs to do more to keep percentage of residents with costly disease from rising, advocates say
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KET offers program about diabetes prevention and control
KET 's "Connections with Renee Shaw" is offering a program about diabetes prevention and control on KET2 Friday, Nov. 8 at 5 p...
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1 in 3 don't get potentially life-saving screening for colon cancer, second leading cause of cancer death in Ky. and U.S.
Federal officials said Tuesday that although detecting colon cancer early saves lives, only about two-thirds of Americans aged 50 to 75 have...
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colorectal cancer,
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A Ky. guide to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Ovarian cancer screening is critical in detecting tumors that don't show up on clinical exams, and increases chance of survival
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cancer screening,
ovarian cancer,
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Increased contact with bats leads to more rabies vaccinations in N. Ky.; health officials say all encounters should be reported
Anthem gift will let Kentucky Homeplace expand diabetes self-management and education project to counties in Western Ky.
Kentucky has nation's first statewide, comprehensive plan for diabetes prevention; 10 percent of us have the disease
Kentucky leads the way in the fight against diabetes and towards improving health for future generations of Kentuckians by becoming the firs...
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Obama and allies tout preventive-services and drug benefits of health-reform law to Medicare beneficiaries in Ky.
The federal health-reform law has made drugs more affordable for seniors, broadened coverage for preventive services and made Medicare more ...
Eastern Kentucky reluctant to accept HPV vaccination that helps prevent cervical, mouth and throat cancers
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News New research indicates that HPV, the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus, is now the leading c...
Kentucky will soon require simple screening at birth to detect silent killers of newborns
Study shows a 15-minute, moderate-speed walk a half-hour after eating can control older folks' spikes in blood sugar
It's no news that walking is good for your health or for preventing diabetes, but a new study published in Diabetes Care says a 15-min...
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Free HIV testing available from health departments and community-based health groups in June; key to AIDS prevention
In honor of National HIV Testing Day on June 27, community-based organizations and local health departments are hosting free HIV testing thr...
Working with a local, regional or state health coalition? A simple step can help make healthy changes in Kentucky
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is asking you to help update last year's Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory, a list of local gro...
Bankruptcy filing by mental-health agency is a loser for Kentucky, where such services can be scarce and little used
W. Va. plans private-public model to provide school breakfast, improve child health, fight obesity; could this approach help Ky.?
Parents should talk to children about alcohol; study shows teens do listen
Two recent studies highlight how important it is for parent to talk with their teens about the risks of alcohol use, which leads to more tha...
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Beshear vetoes prompt-pay bill but takes several steps to address problems in Medicaid; he and Haynes say it's working
Gov. Steve Beshear has vetoed the bill designed to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay health-care providers more quickly, but is taking ad...
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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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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... -
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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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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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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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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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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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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
