Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Study: American children’s diets will cause early heart disease; Kentucky kids seem to be on the same track
Kentucky Health News A study shows that American kids are eating themselves toward early heart disease. The study, published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, looked at a...
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West Virginia to involve Kentucky in examination of studies that link health problems to mountaintop-removal coal mining
Kentucky Health News The administration of Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia “said Tuesday that it would initiate an evaluation of the growing body of studies that have found residents...
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Midwest pollen count indicates that seasonal allergies are expected to be worse than usual this year
Seasonal allergy sufferers beware. Allergy season is officially here and is predicted to be worse than usual, says a news release from Chicago’s Loyola University Health System. image from healthguru.com After weeks of...
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Health foundation says consumers need price transparency; Medicaid health officer says some commercial interests want it
Kentucky Health News The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky says a major step needed to improve the health of Kentuckians is transparency of their health-care cost and quality. “Consumers can...
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Warren County school board bans tobacco use on campuses and by students and employees during extracurricular school activities
The Warren County Board of Education voted 4-1 on March 16 to ban the use of tobacco “by students, employees or those on school grounds or during extracurricular school activities”...
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Beshear cites signs toward better health: kids are more active and getting more dental care; adults are getting more screenings
Kentucky Health News Kentucky is moving toward achieving the broad, ambitious goals for better health that Gov. Steve Beshear laid out when he started the “Kyhealthnow” initiative in February 2014,...
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Study suggests there’s too much imaging of low-risk prostate- and breast-cancer patients in the Evansville and Louisville areas
Hospitals and doctors in the Evansville and Louisville areas may be doing too much medical imaging on patients with low-risk prostate or breast cancer, according to a study of cases...
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Kentuckians split on taxing sugary drinks to pay for nutrition and physical-activity programs, but like warning labels for such drinks
Should soda and other sugary drinks be taxed to fund school nutrition and physical activity programs? Kentucky adults are almost evenly divided on the issue, but the majority of them...
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Survey shows satisfaction with after-school programs aimed at helping children’s health and physical fitness
Kentucky Health News A household survey for the Afterschool Alliance shows that after-school programs may be key in preventing childhood obesity in Kentucky and across the nation. The “Kids on...
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Advocates of state appeals for Medicaid managed-care claims make last-ditch effort to get it passed, by hijacking another bill
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Advocates of a bill to create a state appeals process for health-care providers to appeal decisions of Medicaid managed-care companies are...