Author: Al Cross
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Using food labels and other guidance helps you control weight and reduce risk of cardiovascular disease, FDA study finds
Food labels and dietary guidance help consumers make healthier choices and lose weight, according to a study for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA’s Joanna Parks used data...
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Weekly newspaper in Jessamine County localizes the changes coming to health insurance and health care
The Jessamine Journal did a story this week that every Kentucky newspaper can do, spotlighting the local impacts of Medicaid expansion under federal health reform and federal tax credits for...
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KentuckyOne Health to start around-the-clock online or phone access to health-care providers for $35 a visit on Nov. 1
Hospital group KentuckyOne Health says it will launch a program on Nov. 1 that will let Kentuckians get urgent care at any time by consulting with a medical professional over...
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KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community
The rankings are in quartiles, or fourths of the 120 counties Kentuckians love the competition among their basketball and football teams. But what if that same spirit of competition was...
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Obamacare recruiters encounter resistance in rural Kentucky
Promoters of the new health-insurance system being created under the federal health-reform law are running into resistance in rural Kentucky, where “tend to be less connected to the Internet and...
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State picks managed-care outfits for expanded Medicaid
The state awarded contracts Friday to Humana Inc., Passport Health Plan and Wellpoint subsidiary Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to manage the health care of Kentuckians who will become eligible for Medicaid when...
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McConnell calls for one-year delay in reform law’s key requirement, that Americans buy health insurance
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is calling for a one-year delay in the requirement for almost all Americans to buy health insurance, followed by repeal of the...
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Beshear announces rates in health-insurance exchange, says Kentuckians will like them, especially the federal ‘discounts’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Tossing out the first examples of what Kentuckians will pay for required health coverage through the state health insurance exchange that opens Oct. 1,...
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Caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients suffer, sometimes to death
It’s common to hear about diseases like Alzheimer’s drastically affecting the lives of those who have it, often causing severe struggles and hardships. What you may not hear much about...
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Courier-Journal runs comprehensive list of questions and answers about health insurance exchange set to open Oct. 1
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