Month: September 2016
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Sitting down? It could be killing you; how about a standup desk?
Increasing numbers of news reports about the dangers of sitting are prompting traditional offices to make their workstations healthier by ditching desk chairs. “The link between sitting jobs and deadly...
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Open comment period begins today for Gov. Matt Bevin’s Medicaid request to feds for Medicaid waiver; ends Oct. 8
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians have 30 days to let the federal government know what it thinks about Gov. Matt Bevin’s new Medicaid plan, starting today and ending...
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Kentucky’s first Health Hack-A-Thon, via SOAR, will brainstorm to find solutions to Eastern Kentucky’s health challenges
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Registration is now open for the Appalachian Health Hack-A-Thon, an action-oriented event designed to create new solutions to the health challenges in Eastern Kentucky....
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Almost half of Ky. counties will have only one insurer to choose from on government exchange; open enrollment begins Nov. 1
Base chart from Insider Louisville Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky will be the only health insurer offering coverage for next year to Kentuckians on the government exchange in 54 counties. That...
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Teacher learns food literacy is more than teaching about healthy food; it’s also about geographic and socioeconomic challenges
Cooking Club, part of Fern Creek’s Food Literacy class (Photo by Joe Franzen) A “food literacy” class that began as a way to teach high-school students to eat healthier has turned...
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Kentucky is one of only 2 states where adult obesity rose last year; now we’re fifth in the nation; state diabetes rate highest ever
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News We’re fat, and getting fatter. And that’s making us sicker. More than one-third of Kentucky adults are obese, placing the state fifth in the...
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CDC doesn’t deliver on reported promise to probe health effects of surface coal mining, but two other federal agencies are tackling it
When Shaping Our Appalachian Region was formed to help improve and diversify the economy of Appalachian Kentucky, one of the 10 working groups on issues was about health, which is...
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New health chief says drug crisis takes up most of his time; wants to guide kids to make better choices about tobacco, drugs, alcohol
Dr. Hiram Polk By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One of new Public Health Commissioner Hiram Polk’s top priorities is to create an early-childhood education program to help Kentucky’s children...
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Attorney general, stiffed again by UK’s refusal to let it examine heart-clinic records, says university violated Open Records Act
Attorney General Andy Beshear has ruled that the University of Kentucky violated the state Open Records Act by not giving the Lexington Herald-Leader records about a Hazard heart clinic that...
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10 Ky. health departments nationally accredited, 30 in pipeline
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Ten Kentucky health departments are now nationally accredited, with about 30 more in the pipeline, placing Kentucky third in the country for the number...