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As prescription painkillers become harder to get and abuse, heroin replaces them in Eastern and Southern Kentucky
Seven Ky. communities get grants to reduce risks for chronic diseases among children and 'Invest in Kentucky's Future'
Kentucky picks up on federal Medicaid funding for inmates, which will expand when health reform takes full effect
Sick of all the bad facts about Kentucky's health? Here's encouraging news about oral health and drug treatment
At least one in eight teens, and perhaps one in five, have a mental-health issue; ADHD tops, substance abuse also high
The most comprehensive report yet on mental disorders in children shows attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most commonl...
Could Medicare Part D be an inadvertent enabler of prescription drug abuse?
Kentucky receives an F grade for its low funding of mental-health services; supply falls short of demand
Essential-benefits rule expands mental-health and substance-abuse coverage; Ky. needs more facilities to treat newly eligible
Prescription-painkiller epidemic is spurred by societal shift, experts say: People think every problem has a pill for an answer
Experts explain changes to state prescription-tracking system
N. Ky. Chamber to ask state for more funding to fight heroin; London police make first known heroin trafficking arrests there
The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce is planning to lobby the state for more funding for heroin treatment after receiving reports fro...
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More child-welfare indicators added to Kids Count data site
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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...
