Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Weekly paper in Carter County runs voluntary-response survey about statewide smoking ban, finds slim majority in favor
Wikipedia map: Carter County The Journal-Times, the weekly newspaper in Carter County, is running an online “poll” of reader opinions about the proposed statewide smoking ban and finding a slim...
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New rule will improve reporting of antibiotic-resistant infections in health-care facilities, which are getting worse in Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky will have a new weapon, in the form of data, to fight infections acquired in hospitals and other health-care facilities, with legislative...
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Low-income smokers have a harder time quitting, which helps explain why Kentucky leads the nation in smoking
Lower-income smokers have a harder time quitting than health-conscious middle- and upper-class Americans, Keith Humphreys reports for The Washington Post. The numbers suggest one reason why Kentuckians lead the nation...
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Clark County schools engage students as taste-testers in search for newly required, healthy foods the kids will eat
New federal nutrition standards “are not universally popular with students” in Clark County — some throw away recently required fresh fruits and vegetables — but “participation in school lunch programs...
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Officials of hospitals and state government to discuss future of Ky. health care at Jan. 29 ‘summit’ In Frankfort
State government and the Kentucky Hospital Association will co-host a summit for hospital CEOs, hospital board members and other elected officials and decision makers on the future of health-care delivery...
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1/4 of Ky. adults say they have tried e-cigs; just over half of adults (but not the e-cig users) want them taxed and regulated
More than four in 10 Kentucky adults under age 30 have tried electronic cigarettes, and the older and better off economically Kentuckians are, the less likely they are to have...
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Elizabethtown doctors who paid millions to settle claims of bill-padding are sued by chemotherapy patients
“Eight former patients or their estates have sued the Elizabethtown cancer doctors who paid the government $3.7 million last June to settle claims they extended chemotherapy treatments to pad their...
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Advocates must sell reform as political winds blow, Luallen says
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Advocates of health reform must arm themselves with information about its success in Kentucky to fight back against its critics as the 2015 gubernatorial...
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New marijuana product called ‘wax’ often smoked in e-cigarettes
A new marijuana product on the market called Wax (also called Butter and Honeycomb) that is easily disguised and used in e-cigarettes has found its way to Kentucky, Erica Coghill...