Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Teens who talk to their parents about sex make the best choices; Clark County will offer parenting classes on sex communication
In an average Kentucky high school class of 30 students, almost 13 of the teenagers say they have had sexual intercourse at least once, but many of them have never...
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Peanut butter can be a healthy choice, but you have to read the labels; gimmicks to improve taste not the best for nutrition
Peanut butter has long been considered a healthy food choice, and for the most part it still is, but with the advent of low-fat brands, flavored peanut butters and companies...
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Spring fever: If over-the-counter medicines don’t quell your allergies, it’s a good time to see an allergist
By Ann Blackford University of Kentucky The beauty of spring is upon us, but as lovely as it may be to look at, it can wreak havoc in your nose,...
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Poll finds many Kentuckians continue to struggle with cost of health care, though fewer are uninsured and struggling
While having health insurance certainly eases the cost burden of health care, nearly one-third of Kentucky adults struggle to pay their medical bills whether they have health insurance or not,...
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Mary Hass of Louisville gets national brain-injury advocacy award
Mary Hass (imagefrom BIAK Facebook page) Mary Hass, the volunteer advocacy director at the Brain Injury Association of Kentucky, was one of four medical professionals recognized for their accomplishments in the...
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Kenton County embraces its once-controversial smoking ban as chances of a statewide ban have dimmed
Five years after Kenton County’s smoking ban took effect over great opposition, the county has embraced it, Scott Wartman reports for the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I’m a smoker, but I’m glad...
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Rural drug-overdose rates, high in Kentucky, blamed partly on limits on treatment medication and mental-health services
“People in rural areas of Appalachia are more likely to die early deaths than in other parts of the country,” and a big reason is that they “die from drug...
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In Pineville, a new administrator from a Texas management firm is shaking up the local hospital in an effort to save it
Kentucky Health News The crisis in rural hospitals is driven not only by changes in federal reimbursement and patients’ increasing preference for larger hospitals, but in some towns by managerial...
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Is pervasive pornography the newest public-health crisis?
Gail Dines, a professor of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston and author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, argues in an essay for The Washington Post that...
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Feds find security flaws in Kynect; state says no data breaches; problems also found in federal exchange
State health-insurance exchanges in Kentucky, Vermont and California had “significant weaknesses” in protecting their electronic information from hackers, the Government Accountability Office said in a report last month. “These included...