Category: YOUR HEALTH
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As tax deadline nears, most uninsured appear likely to choose penalty; some with coverage are having to refund part of subsidy
Kentucky Health News Most people facing a tax penalty for not having health insurance appear likely to pay it instead of taking advantage of a special opportunity to but coverage...
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KET to focus attention on cancer with Ken Burns series March 30-April 1, live call-in program on night of April 1
Kentucky Health News KET will show a three-night series, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” by Ken Burns, an in-depth look at the history of cancer, patients’ stories and the “latest...
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Authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic will talk on KET about its causes, myths, complications, treatment and prevention
Kentucky Health News The message that the authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic: A Manifesto for Control and Prevention want readers to take from their book is that “diabetes is a...
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Health reform law drives a trend to include lifestyle changes in a patient’s health care plan, alongside traditional medicine
Lifestyle changes can play a huge role in treating and warding off many health conditions and thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act there is now a shift...
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At roundtable on food and agriculture, Prince Charles says we need to reconnect with the food system and nature, keep stock
Prince Charles “called for urgent restructuring of local and global economies to save humanity from itself” in a whirlwind visit to Louisville on Friday, James Bruggers reports for The Courier-Journal....
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Earth can’t afford to keep supporting our consumerist society as it now exists, Prince Charles tells Louisville audience
Kentucky Health News Transcript of The Prince of Wales’s speech at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, following an introduction by Wendell Berry (subheads added) Ladies and gentlemen, it has...
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As part of Louisville visit, Prince Charles attends roundtable on health and the environment with health and environmental leaders
Press pool report by Al Cross, Kentucky Health News His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at the foot of the Big Four Bridge, an old railroad bridge recently...
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Wendell and Mary Berry welcome Prince Charles and wife to Louisville, where prince will focus on local food and sustainability
In honor of a royal visit on Friday to Louisville by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who will be highlighting issues of sustainability and local food,...
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McCreary County smoking ban fails; story on hearing offers a picture of the strong feelings, pro and con, that the idea evokes
The McCreary County Fiscal Court was unable to move forward with a vote on a smoking-ban ordinance because it lacked a motion for a second reading, Janie Slaven reports for...
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UK gets $2.5 million for rural child poverty nutrition center
L-R: Nancy Cox, dean of UK’s College of Agriculture, Foodand Environment; Secy. Tom Vilsack; Gov. Steve Beshear. Kentucky Health News Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced at the University of Kentucky...