Author: tara_kaprowy
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Meds-for-meth compromise bill introduced
Lawmakers said they would compromise on the idea of making pseudoephedrine available only by prescription, and they have. Senate Bill 3 would only require a prescription for medicines containing the...
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Video systems like Wii Fit not working against child obesity: study
Video games designed to encourage children to exercise don’t do anything to prevent obesity, a study has concluded. It found that children either find a way to trick the games...
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First lady didn’t donate to breast cancer fund; Gov. Beshear announces collaboration to fight many cancers
Though First Lady Jane Beshear made headlines Monday when it was discovered neither she nor Gov. Steve Beshear had checked off a donation box to support breast cancer research on...
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Extensive series focuses on the many faces of mental illness
Mental illness in Rowan County is the subject of an eight-part series of stories written by Noelle Hunter for The Morehead News. With Part 1 largely an introduction to the...
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Avoiding immunizations on religious grounds is risky: Bill Moyers
The movie “Contagion” has veteran journalist and commentator Bill Moyers thinking about how fast a deadly disease outbreak can spread, something that can be further propagated by children whose parents have...
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Kentucky ranks next to last, Fifth Congressional District dead last in national healthiness and happiness survey
(Click on images for larger versions) Kentucky was again next to last among the states in happiness and healthiness of its residents in 2011, ranking above only West Virginia, though...
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Will birth-control mandate cost more or less? Yet to be seen
Will requiring insurance companies to provide contraception be cost-neutral, as the Obama administration claims? It is unclear, and so is whether insurance companies will make Catholic institutions pay more. These were the...
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ER at Louisville’s University Hospital says it is pushed to brink; many other hospitals seeing more emergency patients
Louisville’s University Hospital is straining to meet the vastly increased demand of patients coming to the emergency room. Last year, there were 58,010 visits to the ER to the facility,...
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Convenience, not expense, is making us avoid eating fruits, vegetables and other non-processed foods
A lack of convenience, not a high price, is the major obstacle to getting people to eat more fruit and vegetables, a study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition...
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Judge orders Cabinet for Health and Family Services to speed up its release of child-abuse records
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services has been given 90 days to release thousands of pages pertaining to about 180 cases of children who died or were badly injured...