Day: February 28, 2013
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House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes
The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky’s health care. House Bill 217 addresses some “unintended consequences” of last year’s “pill mill bill” by easing some of the bills...
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Lack of statewide smoking ban represents one part of Kentucky’s struggle to deal with tobacco use and the health issues it creates
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As the bill for a statewide smoking ban lies on its deathbed in the General Assembly, new federal data show Kentucky still has the...
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‘Incredible Colon’ to march across the state in Colon Cancer Awareness Month; more than a dozen stops scheduled
A special tour throughout the state of the Incredible Colon — an inflatable model of a human colon, large enough for visitors to walk through it — will promote education...