Day: November 13, 2014
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Kentucky has a statewide outbreak of whooping cough, perhaps because the child-immunization rate is declining
Kentucky is having a statewide outbreak of pertussis, also called whooping cough, Jennifer Wohlleb reports for the Kentucky School Advocate, the magazine of the Kentucky School Boards Association. This comes at a...
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Diabetes is an epidemic and needs to be treated like one, with a public-health approach, Lexington policy experts say in new book
Diabetes is often called an epidemic, but is not treated as such. Two Lexington health policy experts argue in a new book that this has to change, Tom Eblen reports for...
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Kentucky gets a $7 million grant to improve survival rates for lung cancer, in which it leads the nation
The University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville and the Lung Cancer Alliance have joined in a unique project called Kentucky LEADS (Lung Cancer, Education, Awareness, Detection, Survivorship) Collaborative to assess...