Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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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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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....
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UK Markey Cancer Center named national cancer center for 5 more years; director pledges to halve Ky.’s cancer rate in 10
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky leads the nation in the percentage of residents who get cancer and those who die from it, and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is...
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Medical-review panel law described as ‘imperfect,’ with only 11% of 531 claims assigned to a panel after one year on the books
A Republican-backed law that established medical-review panels to screen lawsuits against health-care providers before they can proceed Is now a year old, and things have not gone exactly as proponents...
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UK College of Medicine’s Bowling Green Campus welcomes inaugural class, with hopes they will stay in the region to practice
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Bowling Green Campus welcomed its first class of 30 medical students Aug. 3 during its inaugural white- coat ceremony at Western Kentucky University, Don Sergent reports for the Bowling...
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UK researchers track genetic trail of ALS, one version of which is more common around Cumberland Gap than anywhere else
Two University of Kentucky researchers are on the genetic trail of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Their detective story has not reached its end, but it...
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Columbia weekly uses national database to report on staffing levels at Adair County nursing homes
Kentucky Health News published a story July 10 about a national database revealing that staffing levels at nursing homes weren’t as good as the industry has made them out to be. Last...
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State suspends July 1 order that required Medicaid patients in managed care to make co-payments for treatment
Kentucky Medicaid officials have suspended collection of co-payments by patients in managed care, a change they had ordered at the start of July. “The co-pays caught health providers by surprise...