Author: tara_kaprowy
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Two nutrition workshops will address school lunch, local foods, childhood obesity
Two workshops focusing on school nutrition and the overall health of Kentucky children will be hosted at the end of next month. The Coordinated School Health Institute workshop will focus...
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Employers will have to pay 8 percent more for employee health insurance next year
“Employers will likely face health-care cost increases of 8.5 percent in 2012, but they’ll mitigate that burden by pushing more costs onto employees and making other changes to benefits,” reports...
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Losing just a little weight can reduce the risk of cancer
Losing even just a little weight — just 5 to 10 percent of total body mass — can help reduce the risk of getting common types of cancer, the National...
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Alternative medicine can help patients manage chronic pain
Patients can turn to health practices like meditation, massage, yoga and acupuncture rather than pills to help manage their chronic pain, says Dr. Josephine Briggs, director of the National Center...
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Cavities can be contagious, researchers have found
A new study has found that cavities are contagious. “Just as a cold virus can be passed from one person to the next,” so can cavity-causing bacteria that cling to...
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Shingles vaccine available, but expensive, and can be hard to find
Though it’s expensive and can be hard to find, a vaccine against shingles is now available to people 60 and up, and in some cases to those 50 and up. Until...
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Kicking smoking habit not that hard, Philip Morris CEO says
The CEO of cigarette giant Philip Morris International said kicking the smoking habit isn’t that tough, though he acknowledged that cigarettes are bad for one’s health and are addictive. Louis...
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Prescription pill problem in Kentucky, elsewhere under microscope on NPR program
The growing prescription-drug abuse problem in Kentucky and other states was under the microscope Thursday during National Public Radio‘s “On Point,” hosted by Tom Ashbrook. The Courier-Journal‘s Laura Ungar, who...
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Construction, expansion at UK HealthCare boosting Lexington’s economy; total payroll now exceeds 8,700
The construction and expansion at UK HealthCare, which comprises the University of Kentucky‘s College of Medicine and Albert B. Chandler Hospital, is giving Lexington a fiscal boost in an otherwise...
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State health commissioner encourages smoke-free ordinances
Kentucky’s public health commissioner said communities are moving in the right direction by enacting smoke-free ordinances and hopes Kentucky can become a smoke-free state. “We have communities in Letcher County,...