Month: December 2015
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$54,000 from CDC will help some counties fight obesity, inactivity
Multiple counties across the state have been awarded federally funded grants from the state Department for Public Health to help fight obesity and inactivity in their communities, according to a DPH...
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Ireland Army Community Hospital at Fort Knox to be replaced
The recently signed National Defense Authorization Act will provide $80 million to build a new 102,000 square-foot medical facility in Fort Knox to replace the existing Ireland Army Community Hospital,...
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Big Sandy Diabetes Coalition in E. Ky. helps counties take charge of this disease that affects 15.2 percent of the area’s population
The Big Sandy Diabetes Coalition in Eastern Kentucky works to help the communities it serves take responsibility for ensuring quality systems of diabetes prevention and care are accessible and utilized...
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Appalachian smoking cessation studies suggest changes in tactics, such as being blunter with pregnant smokers
Two long-term smoking cessation projects in Appalachia have prompted researchers to change to a more direct approach with pregnant smokers, telling them the risks to their babies, and to look...
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Lung cancer is the deadliest but least researched cancer; do funders consider it self-inflicted? An important question for Ky.
Lung cancer kills more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, and yet it is the least researched, which could be because funders perceive it is a self-inflicted disease...