Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is updating its directory of health coalitions; deadline to submit information is April 15
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is updating its directory of local health coalitions and is asking groups that work to improve health in their communities to provide their contact information online...
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Resolution to require study of response to hepatitis A outbreak, and recommendations to avoid a repeat, failed in the legislature
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services won’t have to conduct a study of its response to the hepatitis A outbreak that has killed at least 52 in the state and...
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Drug makers’ payments to doctors may influence their choice of what drugs to prescribe, and that can cost patients real money
By Trudy LiebermanRural Health News Service Peggy, an Indiana woman and reader of this column, recently sent me a lengthy email about her 94-year-old mother who is rapidly...
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20 test positive for E.coli and six of them are hospitalized, mostly in Central Kentucky; state health department searching for source
Twenty Kentuckians have tested positive for an infection caused by a strain of E. coli bacteria, and public health officials say they have not yet identified the source of the outbreak, the...
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Bill to require ‘reasonable accommodations’ to pregnant women at work passes on last day of legislative session
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill that allows pregnant women “reasonable accommodations” while at work, and supports breastfeeding, passed on the last day of the...
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Bevin signs bill setting deadlines for insurers to authorize medications prescribed by health-care providers
Gomerpedia.org —– Gov. Matt Bevin has signed into law “a bill that’s expected to ease the process for getting some medications and treatments pre-approved by insurers,” Darla Carterreports for Insider Louisville. Senate Bill...
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Health departments scramble to fight hepatitis A outbreak
Peyton Manning had hepatitis C but didn’t know about hepatitis A or the outbreak until it hit him. (Michael Clevenger, Courier Journal) —– The nation’s largest outbreak of hepatitis A has...
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Montgomery County reports uptick in cases of syphilis
Montgomery County (Wikipedia map) —– Health officials in Montgomery County say they’re seeing more syphilis cases. “What had become a relatively rare disease is now seeing a resurgence nationwide,” the...
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Bevin says he exposed his nine children to chickenpox, pooh-poohs required vaccinations, misstates what government requires them (it’s his)
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin said in a radio interview that he exposed his nine children to chickenpox instead of vaccinating them, a practice that is...
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County Health Rankings, released Tuesday, show a few big shifts
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky counties that are actively working to improve their community health made significant gains in the latest County Health Rankings issued by the Robert Wood Johnson...