Month: August 2014
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Women Leading Kentucky Health: Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark is key player in making health-reform law work
This is the second in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and...
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Poll: Kynect considered a success, but voters haven’t embraced it, and they still disapprove of the Affordable Care Act
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new poll again indicates that Kentuckians marginally approve of the state health-insurance exchange created under the federal health-reform law, but clearly disapprove of...
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Fayette County Board of Health wants to regulate electronic cigarettes, raising some questions
The Lexington-Fayette County Board of Health is discussing ways to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and strategies to inform people about their potential dangers, Mary Meehan...
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UK researchers find surprising differences in teens’ concussion symptoms and physical and emotional effects
University of Kentucky researchers have discovered surprising differences in symptoms student athletes experience following a concussion, a particular concern as high-school football season nears. Lisa Koehl, a doctoral candidate in...
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UK president sees the need for ‘irrational optimism’ and working as a community to improve Kentucky’s health
The health and economic issues facing Appalachian Kentucky are daunting, but still worthy of “irrational optimism,” as espoused by the head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
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Women Leading Ky. Health: Exchange Director Carrie Banahan says getting people health insurance is highlight of her career
This is the first in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and...
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Health issues facing Appalachia, focus of CDC director’s tour, could be a forewarning of where the country is heading
The chronic health issues of Appalachia, the focus of a recent tour by the head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are really no different than the...
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State gives 5 health departments money for mobile dental-hygiene teams that will examine children at schools; 5 more next year
Using new money in the state budget, the state Department for Public Health has given five local health departments grants to launch mobile dental hygiene programs. The one-year awards of $160,000...
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UK professor develops nasal spray to deliver standard antidote to painkiller overdose; fast-tracked, in final clinical trials
A new lifesaving product to treat painkiller overdoses is in its final round of clinical trials at the University of Kentucky and is being fast-tracked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration....
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Ky. neck-and-neck with Ark. for largest drop in percentage of uninsured; Kynect and Medicaid expansion make the difference
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is finally near the top of a good list about health. It’s neck-and-neck with Arkansas for the greatest drop in the percentage of...