Day: January 4, 2011

Doctors wary of using social media for patient communication

Doctors are reluctant to communicate with patients via social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to a story in The Cincinnati Enquirer. “You have to be very cautious, because...

By tara_kaprowy January 4, 2011 YOUR HEALTH
Health officials to immunize child-care workers for whooping cough, which is making a comeback

Amid a rash of whooping-cough cases, Northern Kentucky health officials will immunize child-care workers against the disease. The effort is to help stop the infection, also known as pertussis, from...

By tara_kaprowy January 4, 2011 YOUR HEALTH
Legislator wants ban on caffeinated energy drinks

Kentucky teenagers will have to be 18 in order to buy high-caffeine energy drinks if state Rep. Danny Ford, R-Mount Vernon, has his way. The lawmaker, left, told The Associated...

By tara_kaprowy January 4, 2011 YOUR HEALTH
Your blogger believes health coverage can change lives

Tara Kaprowy, the chief blogger for Kentucky Health News, is a freelance journalist living in Somerset. At the end of 2010, she left her post at The Sentinel-Echo in London, where,...

By tara_kaprowy January 4, 2011 YOUR HEALTH

Doctors wary of using social media for patient communication