Author: Melissa Patrick
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UK study finds HIV drugs could be repurposed to treat age-related macular degeneration, now untreatable in up to 90% of cases
Drugs that have been used for the last 30 years to treat HIV and AIDS could also be used to treat age-related macular degeneration in the eye and other inflammatory...
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Carrie Banahan, director of Kynect, is named one of Governing magazine’s nine Public Officials of the Year
Carrie Banahan, executive director of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, has been selected by Governing magazine as one of nine 2014 Public Officials of the Year. The magazine, for state...
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National Rural Health Day is Thursday, Nov. 20
The Kentucky Rural Health Association will participate in National Rural Health Day, held on the third Thursday in each November, to spread awareness of rural health-related issues and promote the...
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Ernie Scott, Kentucky rural health leader, gets national award
Ernie Scott, director of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, has received the 2014 Emerging Leader Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health. Scott received his...
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Expectant mothers need to get a flu shot
Expectant mothers need to get a flu shot as soon as it is available in their area, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only the flu shot, not...
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Americans’ sweet tooth blamed for increases in obesity and diabetes; new website explains the dangers of too much sugar
A new website called SugarScience is now available to help consumers understand the health dangers of sugar in our lives, Lisa Aliferis reports for NPR. This University of California, San...
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Medicare plans to pay for lung-cancer screening, a boon to Ky.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan to start paying for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans for people at high risk. Spiral CT (computed tomography), which is used...
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Kentucky meets the diabetes challenge with a comprehensive plan that 15 other states have modeled, advocates say
Kentucky has not simply accepted the dire diabetes statistics that affect so many of its citizens, but instead is meeting this challenge head on with The Kentucky Diabetic Action Plan,...
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Brown fat, already known as a super calorie burner,’ could also be a key to treating Type 2 diabetes, study shows
Better understanding brown fat could lead to future ways of treating obesity and type 2 diabetes, Abby Phillip reports for The Washington Post. A recent study published in The Journal...