Month: May 2012
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For first time, annual health costs for families exceed $20,000
For the first time, the average annual costs of workplace-provided health insurance and other costs for a family of four has exceeded $20,000, a new study has found. Costs are $20,728...
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National effort to combat Alzheimer’s disease begins; as research continues, there are preventive steps you can take
Country singer Glen Campbell, who has Alzheimer’s disease,stands with wife Kim during a national conference Tuesday.Associated Press photo by Charles Dharapak. With numbers expected to jump to 16 million Americans...
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How to take local action to improve health at the local level is outlined at Frankfort conference
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News A recipe for how to improve health at the local level in Kentucky was the capstone of a day-long seminar in Frankfort Monday, with...
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531 deficiencies found in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in first quarter of 2012; worst one had 29; five had none
State inspectors found 531 deficiencies in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in the first quarter of this year, with one facility accounting for 29 of them alone: Life Care Center of...
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Newspaper reporting contest for rural health coverage; deadline June 24
Journalists who have reported about rural health in the past year should start sifting through their clippings. The Kentucky Rural Health Association is awarding four writers $100 each for their...
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Tobacco virus may be used to combat Parkinson’s disease
A tobacco crop affected by drought. Courier-Journal photo by David R. Lutman. University of Louisville researchers say a virus that attacks tobacco plants may be used to develop a vaccine for...
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Coventry changes course, will pay for addiction-treatment drug
Reversing its decision, likely after it was pressured to do so, a Medicaid managed-care organization will continue to pay for a drug used to treat drug addiction. Coventry Cares said...
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100 Kentucky hospitals join network to improve patient safety, fight hospital-acquired conditions such as infections
To help hospitals reduce preventable readmissions and hospital-acquired infections, 100 of Kentucky’s 131 hospitals have joined the Kentucky Hospital Association‘s hospital engagement network. The group’s goal is to help hospitals...
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Hopkinsville paper examines doctor shortage, reasons for it
Albert Delaney waits for his wife Agnes in Hopkinsville.(Photo by Kentucky New Era’s Tom Kane) Nick Tabor of the Kentucky New Era examines Christian County’s doctor shortage, with the area...
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Medicaid managed-care firm Coventry plans to stop paying for expensive drug that curtails addiction
Coventry Cares, one of the four firms that manage patient care for the state Medicaid program, has once again hit the headlines, this time for its plans to stop paying...