Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Smoking ban upsets some state workers; entrepreneur starts a van to take some off Human Resources campus to smoke
Cigarettes and all other tobacco products, as well as e-cigarettes, are no longer allowed on most state property, both indoors and outside, and some state workers aren’t happy about it,...
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UK study finds HIV drugs could be repurposed to treat age-related macular degeneration, now untreatable in up to 90% of cases
Drugs that have been used for the last 30 years to treat HIV and AIDS could also be used to treat age-related macular degeneration in the eye and other inflammatory...
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Ky. Rural Health Association backs statewide smoking ban
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is asking Kentuckians to contact their legislators and advocate passage of a statewide smoking ban in the 2015 session of the General Assembly. KRHA Executive...
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Broad ban on use of tobacco on state property takes effect, except in Capitol and Annex, where law supersedes policy
“Despite a smoking ban and a tobacco-free campus policy starting Thursday for any of the more than 3,000 state buildings, legislative employees working at the Capitol Annex can still light...
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Carrie Banahan, director of Kynect, is named one of Governing magazine’s nine Public Officials of the Year
Carrie Banahan, executive director of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, has been selected by Governing magazine as one of nine 2014 Public Officials of the Year. The magazine, for state...
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Medicaid expansion has been more popular than expected, but that raises a question of whether it will really pay for itself
Kentucky officials say the state’s Medicaid expansion under the federal health-reform law has enrolled more residents and created more jobs than expected, but a study will see whether the expansion...
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National Rural Health Day is Thursday, Nov. 20
The Kentucky Rural Health Association will participate in National Rural Health Day, held on the third Thursday in each November, to spread awareness of rural health-related issues and promote the...
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Ernie Scott, Kentucky rural health leader, gets national award
Ernie Scott, director of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, has received the 2014 Emerging Leader Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health. Scott received his...
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Reform law’s backers say it boosts economy by freeing ‘job lock;’ foes cite estimate that it will make some drop out of job market
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s second enrollment period gets underway, supporters of the law say it boosts the economy by creating an affordable, accessible insurance market that’s...
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Hospitals, plagued by bad debt, ask or even require patients with high-deductible insurance plans to pay in advance
Irene Qdemat of Baptist Health enterspatient data. (C-J photo by Alton Strupp) Kentucky hospitals are so plagued by bad debts that they are asking some patients to pay in advance,...