Category: YOUR HEALTH
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17 Ky. schools have free online mental health wellness course
More than 1,500 students in 17 Kentucky schools recently gained access to a free digital course on mental wellness, provided by the Medicaid program of Anthem Inc., one of the health...
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Parkinson’s disease: Its symptoms, causes and management
By Dr. Zain Guduru University of Kentucky Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that affects movement. Named after Dr. James Parkinson, who first described it in 1817, this condition...
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Stomach cancer: How to recognize the signs and reduce your risk
By Dr. Joseph Kim University of Kentucky While stomach cancer was in the headlines not long ago with the sudden death of musician Toby Keith, the diagnosis is relatively rare....
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Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy honors communities, groups and individuals who help create smoke-free communities
The Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy at the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department for Public Health’s Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Program honored communities, groups and individuals from across...
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2% fewer Ky. children were on Medicaid a year after pandemic re-enrollment began; total enrollment, including adults, dropped 9.5%
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medicaid enrollment of Kentucky’s children fell 1.6 percent since the continuous-coverage protections of the pandemic were lifted last year. That was one of the...
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Fact Check: Contrary to social-media posts, there is still no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines increase your risk of cancer
By Catalina Jaramillo FactCheck.org It has not been shown that Covid-19 vaccines cause or accelerate cancer. Yet opponents of the vaccines say a new review article “has found that Covid-19...
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Industry says Biden administration’s rule mandating staffing levels for nursing homes is ‘impossible’ for them to meet
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new law that sets minimum staffing requirements for federally funded long-term care facilities will require many of them to hire more nurses and...
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Does Ky. law protect in vitro fertilization? Depends on who’s asked
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern None of the bills to explicitly protect in vitro fertilization in Kentucky got a hearing this legislative session, making them effectively dead on arrival. With...
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New official recommendation: Women should start every-other-year mammograms at age 40; some groups favor annual scans
By Carla K. Johnson Associated Press Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to...
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Legislative lobbying reports for last session rank pharmacy-benefit managers fifth, hospitals sixth, Altria 11th, Anthem 17th, docs 18th
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The trade association for pharmacy benefit managers, which acts as middlemen between drug and health-insurance companies, was the fifth largest reported spender on lobbying...