Month: January 2011
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Kentucky gets an ‘F’ for how it handles food-borne illnesses
Kentucky is one of 13 states to receive an “F” for the way it handles food-borne illnesses, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Mary Meehan reports. The Center for Science in the Public...
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Kentucky one of six states to join Cervical Cancer-Free America
Kentucky is one of six states that has joined the Cervical Cancer-Free America initiative, led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The announcement was made today as...
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Retail medical clinics are faster and cheaper, but they can cause problems for patient care, doctors say
Medical clinics located in retail establishments such as Walgreens and Walmart are becoming increasingly popular, The Courier-Journal’s Laura Ungar reports. Researching and consulting firm Merchant Medicine lists 40 retail clinics...
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Essay contest for grad/undergrad students, topic: ‘Obamacare’
KaiserEdu.org is hosting its annual essay contest, with this year’s essay topic President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the U.S. House voted yesterday to repeal. The competition...
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Faith-based alliances may be exempt from health-insurance mandate; Kentucky court case part of national question
Though the health-refom law requires all Americans to be enrolled in a health-insurance plan by 2014, Christians can be exempt if they pool their risk. Such is the message being...
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Bowling Green commission votes 3-2 for smoking ban
After more than three years of discussion, the Bowling Green City Commission passed the first reading of a smoking ban Tuesday in a 3-2 vote. The ban would ban smoking...
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Congressman weighs in on state issue, supporting prescription rule for cold medicines used to make methamphetamine
Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky’s 5th District is backing state legislation that would require a prescription for the sale of medicines like pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the...
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Vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella doesn’t cause autism, so get your children immunized, UK doctor says
A University of Kentucky psychiatrist is encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) now that scientists have found no connection between the vaccine and...
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White House officials blast effort to repeal health-care reform
As House Republicans planned to pass a bill tomorrow that would repeal last year’s Affordable Care Act for health care and health insurance, officials of a freshly business-friendly Obama administration...
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New program aims to get more physicians practicing in rural Ky.
A new program in Morehead aims to get more physicians practicing in rural areas and improve access to health care. The Rural Physician Leadership Program is the result of a...