Month: November 2014
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Laundry detergent pods are sending hundreds of small children to the hospital every year; better to use traditional detergent
Laundry detergent pods, a convenience product that can be tossed into washing machines without having to measure out a liquid or powder, caused more than 700 children to be hospitalized...
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Study in Virginia finds school lunches are healthier than home-packed lunches
Preschoolers and kindergartners at three Virginia schools tend to eat healthier when they eat school lunches compared to lunches packed at home, Roberto A. Ferdman reports for The Washington Post....
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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...
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Second round of private insurance enrollment under Obamacare starts Nov. 15; rates estimated to rise an average of 4.6%
Enrollment reopens Saturday, Nov. 15, for health insurance under the federal health-reform law and the state insurance exchange, known as Kynect. In the second year of what is typically called...
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Generals say obesity is a national-security issue, and the main medical reason 73% of Ky. young adults can’t join the service
“Obesity is the leading medical reason why 73 percent of our young adults cannot qualify for military service” in Kentucky, two former state adjutants general write in The Courier-Journal. They...
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Fear of Ebola is causing people all over the country to act on unfounded fears, and Kentucky is no exception
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Fearing the Ebola virus, administrators at St. Margaret Mary Catholic School in Louisville put Susan Sherman, a registered nurse and an elementary school teacher,...
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Five things you can start doing today to decrease your risk of getting diabetes, which affects one of every 10 Kentuckians
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Diabetes is a real problem in Kentucky and one that is not projected to get any better. You may be at risk of getting...