Month: March 2015
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County Health Rankings look familiar, but show that some counties overcame bad factors to have encouraging outcomes
The 2015 County Health Rankings for Kentucky, compiled by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, have been released. For the fourth...
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Health reform law has been good for hospital finances, health-care costs, Obama administration says
U.S. hospitals have saved billions of dollars because the federal health-reform law has provided coverage for patients who were once charity cases, the Obama administration announced Monday, the fifth anniversary...
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Reform law ‘quietly accomplishing the goals it was created to achieve,’ McClatchy Newspapers reporter writes
The federal health-reform law is still controversial and still facing a legal challenge, but “is quietly accomplishing the goals it was created to achieve,” Washington correspondent Tony Pugh reported for...
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Obama says health-reform law working better than expected
President Obama made this statement on the fifth anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: On the five-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, one thing couldn’t be...
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As tax deadline nears, most uninsured appear likely to choose penalty; some with coverage are having to refund part of subsidy
Kentucky Health News Most people facing a tax penalty for not having health insurance appear likely to pay it instead of taking advantage of a special opportunity to but coverage...
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KET to focus attention on cancer with Ken Burns series March 30-April 1, live call-in program on night of April 1
Kentucky Health News KET will show a three-night series, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” by Ken Burns, an in-depth look at the history of cancer, patients’ stories and the “latest...
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Authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic will talk on KET about its causes, myths, complications, treatment and prevention
Kentucky Health News The message that the authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic: A Manifesto for Control and Prevention want readers to take from their book is that “diabetes is a...
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Health reform law drives a trend to include lifestyle changes in a patient’s health care plan, alongside traditional medicine
Lifestyle changes can play a huge role in treating and warding off many health conditions and thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act there is now a shift...
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At roundtable on food and agriculture, Prince Charles says we need to reconnect with the food system and nature, keep stock
Prince Charles “called for urgent restructuring of local and global economies to save humanity from itself” in a whirlwind visit to Louisville on Friday, James Bruggers reports for The Courier-Journal....
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Earth can’t afford to keep supporting our consumerist society as it now exists, Prince Charles tells Louisville audience
Kentucky Health News Transcript of The Prince of Wales’s speech at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, following an introduction by Wendell Berry (subheads added) Ladies and gentlemen, it has...