Category: FEATURED
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UK professor who won whistleblower settlement for loss of post-retirement job returns to run oral health program for 18 months
Raynor Mullins — When he retired from the University of Kentucky dental school several years ago, Raynor Mullins, now 74, continued working for UK on efforts to improve oral health in the...
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Quitting smoking is a top New Year’s resolution, but can prompt weight gain; dietitian says no big deal, quit anyway; offers tips
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Of the 44 percent of American adults who said they would make a New Year’s resolution this year, 12 percent said they plan to...
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Flu activity increases in Kentucky; health officials urge all 6 months and older to get vaccinated, and to wash your hands
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s influenza level has just been updated to “widespread,” prompting health officials and advocates to encourage Kentuckians to get their flu shot — and...
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Poll: 73% of Ky. voters support state excise tax on e-cigarettes, a proven way to limit use among youth, the devices’ biggest users
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new poll shows that nearly three-fourths of registered voters in Kentucky support a statewide excise tax on electronic cigarettes. Currently, e-cigarettes are subject...
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Study: low-income, rural kids may be at higher risk of cigarette smoke exposure than previously thought
A newly published study in Nicotine & Tobacco Research found that young children from low-income, rural homes could be at a higher risk of exposure to second- and thirdhand cigarette smoke than previously reported....
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Poll: 73% of Ky. voters support state excise tax on e-cigarettes, a proven way to limit use among youth, the devices’ biggest users
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new poll shows that nearly three-fourths of registered voters in Kentucky support a statewide excise tax on electronic cigarettes. Currently, e-cigarettes are subject...
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Poll shows plurality in Kentucky still favor Obamacare; Chandler says numbers suggest opinion of law has settled in state
Kentuckians remain divided about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but for the second straight year more of them clearly favor it than oppose it, according to the latest...
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Ky. drops three spots, to 45th, in America’s Health Rankings; big drops in vaccinations follow state rule allowing easier exemption
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross, Kentucky Health News Kentucky dropped three spots in the latest America’s Health Rankings, to 45th from 42nd last year. It marked the third straight year...
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Altria, No. 1 U.S. tobacco-cigarette maker, buying 35% of top e-cigarette maker; got Ky. legislature to drop proposed tax on e-cigs this spring
“Altria Group Inc. is nearing a deal to take a 35 percent stake in e-cigarette startup Juul Labs Inc. at a roughly $38 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter,” The Wall...
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Most on Medicaid will have co-payments starting Jan. 1; foes say it’s a barrier to care, proponents say it improves engagement
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health NewsStarting Jan. 1, most adult Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky will be required to make co-payments for many of their health-care services, a rule change that prompted...