Category: YOUR HEALTH
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State honors three local groups for fighting abuse of elderly
Three community groups have received awards from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services to help their efforts to stop elder abuse. The Public Awareness Initiative awards, including $500...
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Congress goes home for July 4 after another Zika impasse
Congress took a break for the July 4 holiday after reaching another impasse on funding to combat the Zika virus that has caused birth defects in Mexico and the Caribbean....
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Ky. and Southeast lack statewide smoking bans; political climate here has shifted focus to local bans; Hazard just passed one
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky hasn’t passed a comprehensive smoke-free law, but neither has any state in the Southeast, notes a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Louisville surgeon Hiram Polk named state health commissioner
Dr. Hiram Polk Dr. Hiram Polk, a prominent surgeon from Louisville, has been appointed as the commissioner for the state Department for Public Health. He will report to Vickie Yates...
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Medicaid hearings in Bowling Green and Frankfort elicit nearly incessant criticism; third and final hearing in Hazard next Wed.
Supporters of the current Medicaid expansion sat on the front row of a packed hearing room in Frankfort. By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Supporters were few and far between...
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Insurance firm’s study found Kentucky’s costs for long-term, in-home care dropped this year, even as nation saw an increase
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The cost of in-home, long-term care in Kentucky is less than it was a year ago, an insurance company study says. That should come...
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Campaign seeks to build support for, and action to make, Kentucky communities more walkable for better community health
Seventy Kentucky school districts, local governments, health departments, businesses and other organizations have joined the Step It Up, Kentucky! campaign to encourage walking and build the demand for walkable communities as...
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KentuckyOne under state investigation for critical staff cuts
U of L Hospital (Photo from WDRB-TV) The state is investigating whether patient care is unsafe at University of Louisville Hospital because of staff cuts, particularly in nursing, made...
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Madisonville program aims to develop home-grown doctors
Photo from overseastraineddoctors.com Rural areas are too often underserved by the medical community, but a Madisonville program targeting high-school seniors as prospective health-care providers is helping change that. There are...
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Lexington, Paducah newspapers’ editorials take diametrically opposing sides on Bevin’s proposed changes to Medicaid
Governor Matt Bevin (Photo from politicususa.com) By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s most reliably liberal editorial voice and one of its most reliably conservative are, not surprisingly, on opposite...