Author: Al Cross
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Carroll County schools will make campuses tobacco-free in 2015, even including outdoor sporting events
The schools in Carroll County, once one of Kentucky’s tobacco strongholds, have begun preparing students, parents, teachers and football fans for smoke-free school campuses starting July 1, 2015. “This ban...
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Barren River Health Dept. accredited; joins 5 others in Ky. (Franklin, Fayette, Madison, Northern Ky. and Three Rivers)
The Barren River District Health Department has joined five others in Kentucky with national accreditation. The Public Health Accreditation Board announced Sept. 18 that the Bowling Green-based agency and nine...
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Doctors and parents of children with cancer seek funding
Doctors and parents of young cancer patients made an emotional plea to state legislators Sept. 17 “to make funding for pediatric cancer a priority,” Jacqueline Pitts reports for cn|2‘s “Pure...
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State won’t estimate cost of greater-than-expected Medicaid expansion for ‘a few additional months’ – after Nov. election
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Republican-controlled state Senate’s budget committee chair wants to know how much Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of the Medicaid program will cost, since...
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Appalachian Kentucky has much of what it needs to improve its poor health status, key federal officials agree
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Appalachian Kentucky has the enthusiasm, creativity, people and facilities needed to greatly improve its dismal health status, two high-ranking federal officials said after looking...
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As nurse practitioners enjoy their new, state-granted authority, The Paducah Sun looks at the issue in far Western Kentucky
Kentucky law has expanded the rights of nurse practitioners, Laurel Black notes for The Paducah Sun: “Local practitioners say the move will provide patients with better access to care, but...
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Henderson County Schools post videos to explain changes in meals, snacks and school fund-raisers involving food
Student Nibre Fortune chose food items at Henderson’s Jefferson Elementary School last April. (Gleaner photo by Mike Lawrence) To help parents and students understand the federally mandated changes in school...
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Beshear cites examples of health reform’s benefits, while McConnell keeps up criticism, at Farm Bureau’s ham breakfast
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell squared off on health-care reform for the second straight year at the Kentucky Farm...
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Montgomery County board OKs free meals at most schools
In a microcosm of discussions taking place all over Kentucky and much of America, a divided Montgomery County Board of Education decided Aug. 19 to offer free meals to all...