Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Dr. Nikki Stone and mobile dental team in Hazard have helped cut tooth decay in the region 20 percent in a decade of operation
By Ann Blackford University of Kentucky When Dr. Daria “Nikki” Stone, associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, became the director of the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile...
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Nominations are being sought for award recognizing lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky; deadline is June 17
In June of 2003, the Kentucky Rural Health Association began an award honoring a lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky. The first recipient was Dr. Dan Martin of the...
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Exercise can help prevent or slow cancer, study suggests
Exercise may keep you from getting cancer and slow the growth of a tumor if you get one, according to a mouse-based study published in the journal Cell Metabolism by...
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Flu remains widespread in Kentucky; vaccinations still advisable
This year’s round of influenza hit Kentucky later than usual, and that probably means this year’s flu season could run past May, its usual end, the state Department of Public...
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Bevin administration is working to fix Benefind’s technical glitches; 51,000 Kynect clients blocked from working with Kynectors
Update: 4/8/16 This story has been updated with comments from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On Feb. 29, Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration...
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10 common misconceptions about cancer and the environment
With the advent of the internet, people are swamped with information about cancer and some of it is not based on “sound scientific evidence” or is “at best, anecdotal,” which...
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Struggling Tenn. hospital takes care of Kentuckians, who get better care than Tennesseans thanks to expanded Medicaid
Jellico Community Hospital, just across the Kentucky border in Tennessee along Interstate 75, was taken over by Community Hospital Corp. last May, but that’s not a guarantee it will survive, especially since...
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Legislature’s many health bills include some with life-saving potential, better prevention, greater access and help for children
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One paragraph in this story was incorrect and has been stricken. FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky legislators have all but ended their regular session without...
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U of L dental school’s general-dentistry and oral-medicine chair elected president of American Academy of Oral Medicine
Wendy S. Hupp Wendy S. Hupp, associate professor and interim chair of the Department of General Dentistry and Oral Medicine of the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, will be...
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Bevin gets bill to create third-party appeals process for denied Medicaid claims, which sponsor says are all too common
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create an independent process for Kentucky health-care providers to appeal claims denied by Medicaid managed-care organizations is on its way to...