Month: February 2012
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State and companies were unprepared for quick move to managed care, state auditor concludes
Kentucky officials and the companies in charge were unprepared for the switch to Medicaid managed care, State Auditor Adam Edelen said Wednesday. He sent the Cabinet for Health and Family...
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House Judiciary Committee approves two bills to curb synthetic, Rx drug abuse
Cracking down on drugs is one of the most pressing topics of the 2012 General Assembly, and lawmakers showed they were serious about it this afternoon. (Associated Press photo by...
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Meds-for-meth compromise bill introduced
Lawmakers said they would compromise on the idea of making pseudoephedrine available only by prescription, and they have. Senate Bill 3 would only require a prescription for medicines containing the...
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Webinar on local food projects is set for 2 p.m. Wednesday
An online tool that features the local and regional food projects in the works across the country, as well as case studies that show successful partnerships between producers, businesses and...
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Video systems like Wii Fit not working against child obesity: study
Video games designed to encourage children to exercise don’t do anything to prevent obesity, a study has concluded. It found that children either find a way to trick the games...
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First lady didn’t donate to breast cancer fund; Gov. Beshear announces collaboration to fight many cancers
Though First Lady Jane Beshear made headlines Monday when it was discovered neither she nor Gov. Steve Beshear had checked off a donation box to support breast cancer research on...
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Extensive series focuses on the many faces of mental illness
Mental illness in Rowan County is the subject of an eight-part series of stories written by Noelle Hunter for The Morehead News. With Part 1 largely an introduction to the...
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Avoiding immunizations on religious grounds is risky: Bill Moyers
The movie “Contagion” has veteran journalist and commentator Bill Moyers thinking about how fast a deadly disease outbreak can spread, something that can be further propagated by children whose parents have...
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Kentucky ranks next to last, Fifth Congressional District dead last in national healthiness and happiness survey
(Click on images for larger versions) Kentucky was again next to last among the states in happiness and healthiness of its residents in 2011, ranking above only West Virginia, though...
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Will birth-control mandate cost more or less? Yet to be seen
Will requiring insurance companies to provide contraception be cost-neutral, as the Obama administration claims? It is unclear, and so is whether insurance companies will make Catholic institutions pay more. These were the...