Month: June 2011
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Several Kentucky hospitals overdo CT scans, despite cost, risk
Despite the risk of exposing patients to more radiation and the fact that radiologists say it is very rarely necessary, Medicare outpatients are regularly receiving two CT scans on the...
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Monday, June 27 is National HIV Testing Day
Kentuckians are being encouraged to find out their HIV status on Monday, June 27, National HIV Testing Day. About 1,700 Kentuckians were diagnosed with HIV between Jan. 1, 2005 and Dec....
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Signups due tomorrow for nutrition workshops June 29-July 1
Tomorrow is the deadline to register for two affiliated workshops that will focus on school nutrition and the overall health of Kentucky children. The Coordinated School Health Institute will focus...
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New immunization rules for children take effect July 1
Starting July 1, Kentucky will have new immunization requirements for infants, toddlers and schoolchildren, including age-appropriate pneumonia vaccine for children up to 5 years of age and meningitis vaccine for entry to...
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Rural emergency rooms frequented by the poor and uninsured
A new report from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that low-income adults accounted for 56 percent of the 8 million rural emergency room visits in 2008....
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The urge to merge hospitals is driven by health care reform
Mergers that are creating large hospital groups in Kentucky are part of a national trend being driven in part by last year’s health-care reform law. There are three key reasons...
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UK finally wins $20 million grant to translate medical research into action at the bedside and in the field; now ‘a member of the club’
The University of Kentucky announced Tuesday that the National Institutes of Health had awarded it $20 million over five years to help move research discoveries from the laboratory to the...
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Cities’ efforts to combat obesity get state, national attention
The efforts of two Kentucky cities to slim down made news this week. On Monday, The New York Times ran a story about Louisville’s programs to encourage healthy eating and...
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Data on hospital-acquired infections, other conditions online
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted information about hospital-acquired conditions on its website, and The Courier-Journal not only has a story about it today, it...
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Partnership between UK and Norton extended, further defined
They still haven’t agreed on how to spell “health care,” and don’t do it as we do, but the partnership announced last November between UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare to...