Month: September 2015
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Are your children’s school foods canned or in plastic? That could cause health problems, study in California suggests
Researchers have found that elementary-school children, especially low-income students who are more likely to eat federally funded foods rather than pack a lunch, are being exposed to “school meals that...
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National Institute on Drug Abuse director, in Ky., offers solutions to stop over-prescription of painkillers, opposes pot legalization
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow, told a group of Kentucky journalists and others at the Foundation for...
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Beshear: Bevin plan to repeal Medicaid expansion is ‘shortsighted’
Gov. Steve Beshear, in a statement released Tuesday, said Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin’s plan to repeal the expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky and his plan to find an alternative...
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UK HealthCare performs longest kidney donor chain to date; most donors and recipients meet each other for first time
The University of Kentucky hospital recently performed its first kidney donor chain, and six of the eight patients who took part in it met their respective recipients or donors for...
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90 percent on state’s Kentucky Employee Health Plan are enrolled in its wellness program
If a focus on wellness and prevention is the key to living a longer life, then Kentucky public employees are well on their way with 90 percent of them now...
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Oregon Medicaid will fund alternative treatments for pain in effort to cut opioid abuse; Ky. only pays for a few alternatives
Oregon’s version of Medicaid is getting ready to pay for some alternative treatments to pain pills in hopes of reducing the number of people who become addicted to opioids or...
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Smiling Schools tooth-varnish program expands to 10 more counties; now in 40
Kentucky’s Smiling Schools program is expanding to 10 more counties and will now provide its free preventive tooth varnishing treatments to children in 40 elementary schools, most in Appalachia, according...
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Ky. Rural Health Assn. names state Auditor Adam Edelen “Rural Health Champion” for report on finances of rural hospitals
State Auditor Adam Edelen The Kentucky Rural Health Association has named state Auditor Adam Edelen its first “Kentucky Rural Health Champion” for his special examination of the financial strength of...
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Bevin and Conway’s running mate, state Rep. Sannie Overly, show sharp differences on health-care issues at forum
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The major-party campaigns for governor disagree on all of Kentucky’s major health issues, sharply on such topics as the Medicaid expansion, the Kynect health-insurance...
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Republicans want Medicaid members to pay something
As state officials reviewed changes in the five Kentucky Medicaid managed-care organization contracts that went into effect July 1, one Republican lawmaker said the contracts don’t go far enough and...