Month: January 2014
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Kentucky Equal Justice Center, active in Obamacare signups, wins award from Consumer Reports magazine
The Kentucky Equal Justice Center, a non-profit advocacy organization most recently in the news for encouraging Obamacare enrollments, has won the Consumer Reports Excellence in Consumer Advocacy Award, which includes a...
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Statewide smoking ban is ‘very important’ to improving Kentucky’s health, state public-health commissioner says
A statewide law to protect people from secondhand smoke is “very important” for improving the overall health of Kentucky, the state’s public-health commissioner said on the latest edition of KET‘s...
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House gets bill for school diabetes-management training
A bill to allow school personnel to administer insulin and otherwise treat diabetes symptoms if they undergo specified training is headed to the House floor. House Bill 98 reflects a shortage of school...
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Poll finds that 79 percent of Kentuckians, including 60 percent of Republicans, support Beshear’s expansion of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians strongly support Gov. Steve Beshear’s decision to make hundreds of thousands more of them eligible for Medicaid under the federal...
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30% of uninsured Kentuckians still don’t know about Kynect health-insurance exchange despite heavy advertising, poll finds
By Melissa Landon and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kynect, Kentucky’s online marketplace for health insurance, launched on Oct. 1 under the federal health-reform law. In a poll taken from...
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E. Ky. women pass up breast, cervical cancer screenings due to embarrassment, misinformation; fatalism may play a role
Appalachian Kentucky women often don’t get available screening test for breast and cervical cancer because of embarrassment, lack of accurate information about availability and guidelines, and lack of encouragement from...
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Beshear budget would expand oral health, cancer screening, brain-injury treatment and alternatives to institutionalization
Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposed state budget includes money to expand oral health programs, screening for cervical and breast cancer, treatment for Kentuckians with brain injuries and programs to held disabled...
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New Medicaid enrollees show better mental health already, from relief of stress, after getting their first health coverage
Though enrollment in private insurance under federal health reform has been slower in Kentucky and other states than advocates hoped, Medicaid enrollment has skyrocketed in the state and others that...
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As national smoking rate has declined, Kentucky’s has gone up
Randy Jackson, 50, of Louisville, said he’s smoked for 20 years. (Photo by Aaron Borton, special to The Courier-Journal) “Kentucky has failed to keep up with the nation’s gains in...
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UK Children’s Hospital plans to resume heart surgeries after hiatus caused by deaths of five children, departure of surgeon
The University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital plans to resume heart surgeries, following a suspension of the program prompted by the deaths of five children in 11 months and the departure...