Month: September 2013
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Using food labels and other guidance helps you control weight and reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, FDA study finds
Food labels and dietary guidance help consumers make healthier choices and lose weight, according to a study for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA’s Joanna Parks used data...
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Weekly newspaper in Jessamine County localizes the changes coming to health insurance and health care
The Jessamine Journal did a story this week that every Kentucky newspaper can do, spotlighting the local impacts of Medicaid expansion under federal health reform and federal tax credits for...
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Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News In 2012, as U.S. incomes remained lower and poverty rates higher than in 2007, the year before the recession, Kentucky poverty rates increased and...
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KentuckyOne Health to start around-the-clock online or phone access to health-care providers for $35 a visit on Nov. 1
Hospital group KentuckyOne Health says it will launch a program on Nov. 1 that will let Kentuckians get urgent care at any time by consulting with a medical professional over...
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Kentuckians can act to protect against heart disease and stroke; half of preventable deaths occur in adults age 65 or younger
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Nearly one on three deaths in the U.S. each year is caused by heart disease and stroke. At least 200,000 of these deaths are...
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KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community
The rankings are in quartiles, or fourths of the 120 counties Kentuckians love the competition among their basketball and football teams. But what if that same spirit of competition was...
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Study says obese children (Kentucky’s a leader in that) may have quadruple the risk of having high blood pressure as adults
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new study shows that being obese in childhood may quadruple the risk of having high blood pressure risk as an adult, highlighting the...
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Increased contact with bats leads to more rabies vaccinations in N. Ky.; health officials say all encounters should be reported
Fruit bat roosting in a home Northern Kentucky health officials are warning residents to be more wary of bats after an unusually high number of residents have made contact with...
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Does gum disease indicate future joint problems? Study links gum-disease bacterium to collagen-caused rheumatoid arthritis
Although researchers and clinicians have long known about an association between two prevalent chronic inflammatory diseases – periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis – the microbiological links have been unclear; a...
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Obamacare recruiters encounter resistance in rural Kentucky
Promoters of the new health-insurance system being created under the federal health-reform law are running into resistance in rural Kentucky, where “tend to be less connected to the Internet and...