Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Both Affordable Care Act insurers in Kentucky seek rate hikes; Anthem is returning to 17 unspecified counties, for a total of 76
The two health insurers offering government-subsidized health plans in Kentucky’s individual market for 2019 are both requesting an overall rate hike, the most popular one seeking increases averaging 3.5 percent...
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Philanthropist Christy Brown gives U of L $5 million for institute to study environmental conditions that affect human health
With a $5 million gift from leading Louisville philanthropist Christina Lee Brown, through the Owsley Brown II Family Foundation, the University of Louisville has established an Envirome Institute in its School of Medicine to “develop integrated knowledge...
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Clinton County’s obesity rate falls after years of foundation-funded program for improvement of the community’s health
Five years ago, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky gave the Clinton County schools the first installment of a $400,000 grant to help improve the county’s health status, with emphasis on children....
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Woman who lost 100 lbs. gives message of hope to the 68% of Kentuckians who are overweight: ‘If I can do it, anyone can do it’
It took back surgery and the very real chance that she would eventually have to have it again to motivate a 250-pound, 40-year-old Kentucky woman with a list of health...
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Weekly newspaper tells the story of a transgender woman, 19
The Lebanon Enterprise, which under Editor-Publisher Stevie Lowery has a recordof tackling sensitive subjects, broke new ground last week with a story about a 19-year-old transgender woman. The story by reporter Emily...
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Half of Americans 30 and older, and almost half of Kentuckians that age, have advanced gum disease that can lead to tooth loss
Half of Americans aged 30 and older have a disease of the gums called periodontitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If left untreated, gum disease can...
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Cancer Society says screening for colon cancer should start at 45, not 50; Ky. leads the nation in colon cancer and deaths from it
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In response to rising rates of colorectal cancer among younger people, the American Cancer Society now recommends that adults with a normal risk for colon cancer get their...
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Celebrity suicides raise concern about ‘contagion;’ Ky. rate higher than most states; experts say we need to talk about it openly
“The suicides of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain just days apart . . . have mental health professionals worried about the potential for what’s known as...
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Children are at risk of death from being left in hot cars; health officials say don’t do it in any circumstances, offer prevention tips
Every summer, children die from heat stroke because they are unintentionally left in a hot car, with the majority of these deaths occurring in children age 3 and under The latest...
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UK and Norton hospitals rank high in resistant bloodstream infections; UK cites complex cases, recent improvements
“Kentucky’s two biggest hospital systems had some of the country’s highest instances of an often deadly bacterial bloodstream infection known as MRSA” in the fiscal year that ended June 30,...