Author: Melissa Patrick
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Kentucky Voices For Health names new executive director
Emily Beauregard Emily Beauregard has been named executive director of Kentucky Voices for Health. “We had an excellent pool of candidates for the position and are thrilled to have found in...
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School health units expand in Southern Ky.; treatment and prevention should pay off in longer, healthier lives for students
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News School-based health centers are a new approach to providing student health care through a public-private partnership, whose model of care has the potential to...
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Republican senator suggests expanding Kynect to other states to help pay state’s coming share of Medicaid expansion
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the Republican nominee for governor says he would dismantle the state health-insurance exchange branded as Kynect, a GOP senator is talking about not...
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Non-profit hospitals in Flemingsburg and Horse Cave become part of larger groups in order to stay open
Two more rural Kentucky hospitals, Caverna Memorial Hospital in Horse Cave and Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg, are merging with larger hospital groups in an effort to make ends meet....
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Study finds that teens who use e-cigarettes are more than twice as likely as non-using teens to start smoking tobacco products
image: usnews.com Teens who use electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to start smoking tobacco than those who have never used the devices, according to a study...
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Kentucky will get money to increase colon cancer screenings in Louisville and Appalachia, which lag behind recent success
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky will receive about $2.6 million in federal money over five years to help fight colon cancer by encouraging people to be screened for...
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Writer considers salad a wasteful luxury, and not all that nutritious
Salads should be considered a “resource-hungry luxury” instead of a staple because they offer little nutritional value, require “precious crop acreage” to grow, requires fossil fuel and refrigeration to ship,...
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Bevin and Conway to speak, answer questions about health policy at rural-health group’s meeting Sept. 18 in Bowling Green
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is hosting a “Candidates Forum on Health” Friday, Sept. 18 in Bowling Green, after the conclusion of its annual conference. All of the candidates running...
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Ky. to share in $2.5 million anti-heroin grant that will pair law enforcement and public health to put more focus on treatment
Kentucky will be among several states to share a $2.5 million federal grant to help fight the heroin epidemic in its communities, according to press release from the office of...
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‘Snapshot’ from continuing study of health reform in Ky. shows steep drop in amount of uncompensated care at hospitals
A continuing study of federal health reform’s impact in Kentucky has found a big drop in uncompensated care at hospitals and broader insurance coverage than in adjoining states. The Foundation...