Author: Melissa Patrick
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University of Kentucky rural health expert, Ty Borders, appointed to national advisory committee on rural health
University of Kentucky College of Public Health Professor Ty Borders was recently appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services. Ty Borders This committee is part of...
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Feeling exhausted and not sure why? Ask your health-care provider to check your vitamin B12
Some doctors are adding a vitamin B check to their standard “baseline” workup, especially vitamin B12, the one most commonly deficient, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy reports for Newport Natural Health. “By some...
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In-school health clinics not only meet the health-care needs of students and staff, but also their families
School-based health clinics in Kentucky could become a trend, especially as the state searches for solutions to meet the health care needs of schools as budgets for school nurses continue...
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Free overdose-reversal kits are given to Kentucky hospitals with the highest recent rates of heroin-overdose deaths
Kentucky hospitals with the highest rates of heroin overdose deaths are receiving funding for heroin/opiate overdose reversal kits, which will be provided free of charge to every treated and discharged...
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Clay County 4th and 5th graders participate in UK research of circadian rhythms and obesity, little studied in children
The University of Kentucky recently partnered with over 100 fourth and fifth grade students in two Clay County schools to study the relationship between circadian rhythms and weight in children....
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Health care professionals strongly endorse new federal dietary guidelines, which say to eat less red and processed meat
A group of 700 physicians and other health care professionals sent a letter of strong endorsement to the secretaries of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services...
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Beshear is Communicator of the Year for efforts with Kynect
Governor Steve Beshear has been named 2014 Communicator of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America‘s Thoroughbred chapter. He received the award for his communication to Kentucky residents...
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Bluegrass Family Health changes name to Baptist Health Plan
Bluegrass Family Health, the insurance arm of Baptist Health, is changing its name to Baptist Health Plan. This change will make the Lexington-based health insurance carrier, which has offered insurance...
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Louisville’s PharMerica is still a defendant in federal cases in which big drug makers have paid billions in fines
Abbott Laboratories has paid billions, and Amgen Inc. has paid millions, in fines for offering “rebates” or “kickbacks” to get pharmacy companies to increase their prescriptions of drugs in nursing...
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Many Americans still don’t use sunscreen, which has been proven to prevent skin cancer, the most common cancer in the U.S.
Sunscreen has been proven to reduce the risk for all types of skin cancer and to prevent or delay signs of aging, but most Americans still don’t use it regularly,...