Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Salmonella outbreak in 35 states linked to live poultry; 21 cases reported in Kentucky; here are some tips to avoid infection
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo Poultry specialists from the University of Kentucky are urging Kentuckians who raise chickens or ducks to take extra precautions against salmonella infection,...
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Official praises needle exchanges and medication-assisted treatment for addiction: ‘Treatment works. Recovery is possible.’
Scott Hesseltine Scott Hesseltine, the new vice-president of addiction services at Louisville’s Seven Counties Services, talked on Kentucky Educational Television about needle exchanges and a new model of addiction treatment that combines medication...
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Kentuckians agree regionally on tobacco controls; poll shows wide differences among regions in impact of drug abuse
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News In a state that once had more tobacco farms than any other, Kentuckians in all regions of the state support policies that discourage use...
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CDC boss Tom Frieden, at SOAR, gives examples of how communities can improve health, such as smoking bans
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Speaking to a region with some of the nation’s poorest health, the top federal public-health official gave examples of how individual...
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Youth injuries from e-cigarettes spike; FDA is starting to regulate them, but study authors say not enough to protect children
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The number of young children swallowing or being exposed to the liquid nicotine used in electronic cigarettes has “skyrocketed,” jumping 1,500 percent from 2012...
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WellCare provides twist-on naloxone nasal atomizers for free, encourages those who know addicts to have naloxone on hand
WellCare of Kentucky and the Kentucky Pharmacists Association have teamed up to provide 1000 twist-on naloxone nasal atomizers for free, in hopes of making it easier for people to administer...
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Kentucky’s life expectancy, a basic measure of health status, is 76; it fluctuates as many as 9 years from county to county
By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News A life lived in Kentucky is expected to vary up to nine years in length depending on the county in which it’s spent. Life...
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KET programs focus on oral health, ‘just as critical to the well-being of Kentuckians’ as problems that have a higher profile
Kentucky Educational Television has turned its attention to oral health, which it says is “just as critical to the well-being of Kentuckians” as the state’s “alarmingly high rates of cancer,...
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Bacteria that can’t be treated by any antibiotic now in U.S.; Kentucky ranks first in one type of antibiotic-resistant infection
A colorized scanning of E.ColiCredit: CDC/Jancie Haney Carr For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria that can’t be treated by “last resort”...
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Prevention is the key to surviving tick season in Kentucky, which runs through August; here are some tips
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With outdoor summer activities in full swing, it’s important to remember that tick season, which runs from mid-March through August in Kentucky, is upon...