Month: June 2015
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Doctor discusses myths about sun exposure and sunburn
As the weather grows warmer and more people spend longer periods of time outside in the sun, it’s important to understand the dangers of sun exposure. “Ultraviolet radiation is a known...
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Annual health policy forum set Sept. 28 in Bowling Green
This year’s annual Howard L. Bost Health Policy Forum “will offer new insights and opportunities from a range of civic sectors for a shared vision, policies, and actions for community health,”...
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Kentucky is cracking down on Suboxone, a heroin substitute that has become a big part of the illegal trade in painkillers
A drug that was supposed to help people get off heroin has “created a new cash-for-pills market and a street trade” that state officials are trying to stop, Mary Meehan reports...
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Lake Cumberland District Health Department using polls in an effort to get school boards to make campuses tobacco-free
Countywide smoking bans are unlikely to pass anytime soon in most of rural Kentucky, but more county school districts are making their campuses tobacco-free. Now a multi-county health department is...
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Merger mania: Aetna bids for Humana; Cigna may want it too; Anthem has bid for Cigna; UnitedHealth makes a play for Aetna
Aetna Inc. has made a bid to buy Louisville-based Humana Inc.,”one of a number of recent moves by big health insurers to find merger partners,” Dana Mattioli and Liz Hoffman...
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Biotech firm buys UK professor’s anti-overdose nasal spray
Pharmacy Professor Daniel Wermeling at the University of Kentucky invented a nasal spray to fight heroin overdoses, and a biotech firm has bought the product, which may be on the market...
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Three doctors, nine others in western half of Kentucky are indicted in the largest-ever federal ‘takedown’ of Medicaid fraud
Former Dr. Fred Gott of Bowling Green was arrested.(Photo: Miranda Pederson, Bowling Green Daily News) Twelve people in the western half of Kentucky, including three doctors, have been charged with Medicaid...
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Trimble County parents protest ‘humiliating’ treatment of students whose school lunchroom accounts are in the red
Parents in Trimble County are demanding that the county schools stop serving cheese sandwiches to students whose lunchroom accounts are in the red, Kayla Vanover of WAVE-TV in Louisville reports....
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Republican legislators question cabinet’s figures on managed-care payments and cost projections for Medicaid expansion
Audrey Haynes (cn|2 image) “When Audrey Haynes sat down before the legislature’s Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee Wednesday, she expected the data she brought would persuade lawmakers that Kentucky’s expansion...
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Health department urges Kentuckians to walk regularly; state ranks high in obesity, low in physical activity
With summer here, the state health department is urging Kentuckians to adopt a regular walking schedule to connect with friends and neighbors and improve health and fitness in a state that ranks...