Day: August 13, 2015
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Legislative freshmen’s bipartisan bill, now law, lets tax refund to go to pediatric cancer research, or part of it to rape crisis centers
Gov. Steve Beshear held a ceremonial signing Aug. 12 of a bill that creates a option on individual state income-tax returns to divert refunds for the study and treatment of...
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Boone County Schools strategically implement healthy changes to lunch menu
Boone County Schools began serving healthier food and offering low-fat, low-sodium meals in their lunchrooms before the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was implemented in 2010, Amy Scalf reports for the Community Press....
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Ashland teachers will incorporate physical activity into lessons
Teachers from Ashland Independent Schools attended a Take 10 workshop to learn how to incorporate physical activity into the classroom, Adam Black reports for The Independent: “The program, which has been provided . ....
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UK doctors use remote ultrasound program to care for at-risk expectant mothers in rural areas
Sonographer Laura Bates moved a camera in Manchesterwhile a doctor at UK talked with patient Mary Sizemore.(Lexington Herald-Leader photo by Andrea Noell) “Care often is best delivered close to home,” Dr. John O’Brien,...