Author: tara_kaprowy
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Three of four UK’s research professorships fund work in health
Three of the four University of Kentucky research professorships awarded for the 2012-13 school year will fund health-related work. Each award is worth $40,000. Mark Filmore, right, who teaches in UK’s Department...
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Need for painkillers and social support, shortage of treatment programs, feeds prescription drug abuse in Appalachian Ky.
By Ivy Brashear Kentucky Health News Taking opioids is still the best way to treat patients with pain, but the drugs are addictive because they do more than just alleviate...
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Serious shortage of primary-care physicians expected in Louisville
An aging population, a high number of doctors getting ready to retire, and medical students opting to specialize for better pay and hours are all factors contributing to an expected...
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Rogers joins bill to link up states’ prescription drug monitoring systems
Though a state bill aimed at quashing “pill mills” by proactively tracking drug prescriptions has so far failed to pass in the Kentucky General Assembly, Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers...
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More foreign-born doctors practice in rural areas, come from poor nations; Kentucky is about average, West Virginia is high
More than 15 percent of physicians in the U.S. received training in lower-income countries, including India, Pakistan and the Phillippines, a new study has found, reports Lori Kersey of The Charleston Gazette....
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Rural newspapers don’t write a lot of health stories — but they should, expert says
“If a newspaper can’t stand for better health and better health care, then what in the world can it stand for?” This was the galvanizing statement of a talk today...
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Rural newspapers have power to influence people’s health, but few health articles are being published in Kentucky, study finds
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Though studies suggest that newspapers can influence people’s decisions about their health and can even lead to public-policy changes, for the most part Kentucky’s...
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Norton and UK HealthCare formalize the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago
UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare have formalized the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago and will “focus on creating collaborations with hospitals across the state in...
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Conflicting interpretations abound regarding CBO’s report about cost, coverage of Affordable Care Act
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Since the Congressional Budget Office released a report with revised estimates about how many people the Affordable Care Act will cover and how much...
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Affordable Care Act helping families, seniors in rural areas, agriculture secretary says on its second anniversary
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is already making an impact, including for people who live in rural America. That was the message from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today...