Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Kentucky Health News reporter gets fellowship to report on rural health workforce issues, with a focus on nurses
Melissa Patrick Melissa Patrick, reporter for Kentucky Health News, has been named 2016-2017 Nursing and Health Care Workforce Media Fellow for the Center for Health, Media & Policy. Patrick, a former...
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Dr. Michael Karpf to retire as head of UK hospital
Dr. Michael Karpf Dr. Michael Karpf, who has led the University of Kentucky Medical Center during a decade of major growth, announced Wednesday that he would retire in 2017. At...
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KentuckyOne Health announces diabetes prevention program in Central Kentucky
KentuckyOne Health is launching a program to prevent Type 2 diabetes in Central Kentucky. The year-long program is modeled after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program “designed for individuals at...
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Kentucky’s uninsured rate drops to 6 percent; states that expanded Medicaid, like Kentucky, saw the greatest drops
The share of Kentuckians without health insurance dropped by more than half from 2013 to 2015, bringing it down to only 6 percent of the state’s population, from 14.3 percent, according...
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Sipping on sugary drinks ruins teeth, perhaps more from the acid in them; it’s almost as corrosive as battery acid, VA dentist says
Many of us constantly sip on a soft drink, especially in Kentucky, but the habit could be ruining our teeth. Most soft drinks have sugar, acid or both and repeated...
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Sept. 23 is deadline to apply for grants that can be used for syringe exchanges; 17 approved, but few in high-risk counties
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Office of Drug Control Policy is offering competitive grants to local boards of the Agency for Substance Abuse Policy for them to use toward...
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Feds reject Ohio’s Medicaid proposal, which was a lot like Ky.’s; federal comment period for Kentucky plan runs through Oct. 8
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rejected Ohio’s new Medicaid plan Friday, saying it could lead to the state’s low-income people losing health...
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Sitting down? It could be killing you; how about a standup desk?
Increasing numbers of news reports about the dangers of sitting are prompting traditional offices to make their workstations healthier by ditching desk chairs. “The link between sitting jobs and deadly...
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Open comment period begins today for Gov. Matt Bevin’s Medicaid request to feds for Medicaid waiver; ends Oct. 8
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians have 30 days to let the federal government know what it thinks about Gov. Matt Bevin’s new Medicaid plan, starting today and ending...
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Kentucky’s first Health Hack-A-Thon, via SOAR, will brainstorm to find solutions to Eastern Kentucky’s health challenges
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Registration is now open for the Appalachian Health Hack-A-Thon, an action-oriented event designed to create new solutions to the health challenges in Eastern Kentucky....