Month: November 2011
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Primary care and management of chronic diseases could soon be coming to your local Walmart store
Just weeks after announcing part-time employees would no longer receive health insurance benefits, Walmart said Monday it is planning to offer extended medical services in its stores, report NPR’s Julie...
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Federal judge rules proposed warning labels on cigarettes are too biased, blocks them from appearing on packs
The graphic warning labels that were going to start appearing on cigarette packages in the fall of 2012 have gotten hung up in court, with a federal judge ruling Monday...
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Light up at school? Face a $150 fine in Jessamine County
If students at the two Jessamine County high schools are found with cigarettes or any kind of tobacco product while on campus, they can face a fine up to $150....
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Thursday, Nov. 17, will be first National Rural Health Day
Nov. 17, 2011 will be the first annual National Rural Health Day sponsored by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health. The goals of the event are to...
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McCracken County to consider banning new kind of synthetic pot
In response to several teenagers overdosing on it, officials in McCracken County are considering banning chemicals that are being sold as synthetic marijuana. “Death is a realistic side effect when...
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Nursing home ombudsman program at risk because of ‘callous and apparenly clueless’ move by feds, advocate writes
The Kentucky long-term care ombudsman program is at risk in Kentucky due to a change in federal policy. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is “quietly telling some state...
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Smokers should pay more for health insurance, but obese should not, national poll finds
Nearly 60 percent of people in October’s Thomson Reuters–NPR Health Poll said smokers should pay more for their health insurance than those who don’t smoke, but 69 percent said “no”...
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University Hospital files suit saying it is not public; could affect merger, open records
Attorney General Jack Conway may have ruled it a public entity and thus subject to open-records laws, but University Hospital officials are insisting that’s not the case and have filed...
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Louisville hospital merger would be just one of dozens across the country, driven by economic and regulatory concerns
Hospitals are banding together to create organizations better able to withstand the changing tides of the economy and health-care policy. The proposed merger of Louisville’s Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s...
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Beshear appoints panel to identify docs with suspicious prescribing practices
Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed a panel that will help identify the state’s health providers who are prescribing a suspicious amount of pain pills. The move is to help combat...