Category: FEATURED
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky report documents its change from a small philanthropy to ‘an influential statewide advocate’
Under new leadership, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky “led or funded work to change dozens of state and local laws and policies in 2017 to help make Kentuckians healthier,” including...
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Dan Martin, rural health champion in Western Kentucky, dies at 92
Dr. Dan Martin, a leader in rural health for Western Kentucky, died Aug. 14 at the age of 92. The Harvard Medical School graduate moved to Madisonville in 1965, where...
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Kentucky federal judge throws out Bevin’s Medicaid suit
A federal judge in Kentucky dismissed Monday a lawsuit that amounted to a counterclaim by Gov. Matt Bevin against 16 Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries, who have sued a federal agency in...
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International visitors, potential leaders in their countries, visit Rural and Underserved Health Research Center at UK
Front row, from left: Chanchamnap Sok, Cambodia; Dr. Asma Hamid, Algeria; Dr. Mangu Kendino, Papua New Guinea; Suzette Adel Maher Faragallah, Egypt; Mariana Bezugla, Ukraine. Back row: Dr. Richard Ingram, assistant professor of...
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By 7-1, public comments in 3rd round on Kentucky Medicaid plan oppose it; suit filed to stop similar work requirements in Arkansas
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News When the third round of public comments on Kentucky’s proposed Medicaid plan ended at 11 p.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 18, more than 11,500 people...
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Most who think they’re allergic to penicillin aren’t; that can lead to over-use of antibiotics and resistant infections, a big issue in Ky.
About 10 percent of Americans say or think they have a penicillin allergy, but 90 percent of those people are not truly allergic and could tolerate the drug, according to the U.S. Centers...
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Study finds non-smoking children of smoking adults 31 percent more likely to die of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
If one or both of your parents smoked and you didn’t, you are still more likely to die of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, says a study published Thursday by the American Cancer Society....
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Telling doctors about their patients who die of overdoses makes some reduce their prescribing of opioids
Telling doctors that their patients have died from drug overdoses reduce the physicans’ prescribing of opioids, the San Diego County medical examiner’s office in California found when it sent such...
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UK HealthCare again named best Ky. hospital in U.S. News & World Report rankings; report has overview of most Ky. hospitals
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Six Kentucky hospitals have been named among then nation’s “Best Regional Hospitals” in the annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report magazine. They are, in order: the University...
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Nominations are sought by Sept. 7 for award recognizing lifetime contributions to rural health in Kentucky
Since 2003, the Kentucky Rural Health Association has awarded an individual with an award for their lifetime contributions to rural health in Kentucky. The award is named for its first recipient, Dr....