Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Public is invited to join discussion about food sustainability systems at UK April 7; will help shape UK’s food-systems studies
The public is invited to a discussion about sustainable food systems at the 2016 Food Studies Symposium at the University of Kentucky April 7 to “share current learning, build collaborations,...
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Customers of exchanges such as Kynect are more likely to get prescriptions than other private health-insurance customers
“People enrolled in health plans through the Affordable Care Act exchanges are ramping up their use of prescription medications more rapidly than those in employer or government-sponsored plans, according to...
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85 percent of Kentucky adults want schools to be tobacco-free, but only 28 percent of the state’s school districts are
An overwhelming majority of Kentucky adults, 85 percent, want schools to be tobacco-free, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll. But only 28 percent of the state’s school districts...
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Kentucky ranks fourth nationally in painkiller prescriptions; CDC proposal would limit prescription strength and amount
Kentucky has the nation’s fourth highest rate of painkiller prescriptions, at about 130 prescriptions for every 100 people, Christine Vestal reports for Stateline. The high rate of painkiller prescriptions is...
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Rice Leach, battling cancer and headed for hospice, gets Public Health Hero Award that Fayette health board will name for him
Rice Leach Dr. Rice Leach, a state and national leader in public health for decades, was honored March 14 with the Public Health Hero Award from the Lexington-Fayette County Board...
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Did you know that smoking can lead to Type 2 diabetes?
Smoking can lead to diabetes, and then cause more complications from the disease. So writes Dr. Laura B. Hieronymus, associate director of education and quality services at the Barnstable Brown...
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Stivers calls for House bills on Kynect and Medicaid expansion, says Senate would vote on them to show where legislators stand
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Republican Senate President Robert Stivers challenged Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo Friday to send the Senate two House bills that would preserve the state’s...
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Co-workers with CPR and AED training save Lexington man from ‘widow maker’ heart attack; now he’s fine and cheering Wildcats
Tim Hayden (UK photo) This time last year, co-workers’ quick actions saved a Kentucky man who suffered from a usually fatal type of heart attack because they knew how to...
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This year’s smoking-ban bill is dead; Senate advocates have bill to make insurers provide all smoking cessation treatments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Despite early hope, the bill to ban smoking in Kentucky workplaces was likely dead on arrival this year. “I haven’t heard anything about the...
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Hard-fought bill to protect independent pharmacies passes Senate committee; would regulate pharmacy benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Update March 28: SB 117 passed the Senate March 14 with a 38-0 vote and passed the House March 25 with a 97-0 vote....