Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Choose a diet specific to your health needs, and recognize that even small changes will create a healthier you
Dieting doesn’t just mean cutting back on calories anymore. Now you can choose a diet based on specific outcomes such as weight loss, heart health or diabetes control, writes Travis Thomas, assistant...
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Anthem, Humana, Golden Rule and Time health insurers to refund $6.2 million in Ky. for not spending enough on patient care
Four insurance companies will refund $6.2 million to Kentuckians because the insurers didn’t meet a requirement of federal health reform, to spend at least 80 percent of the money they get...
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Older rural residents are more likely to seek care at rural hospitals, national study finds
Rural hospitals are more likely to serve older patients seeking hospitalization, while younger rural residents seek medical care in urban areas, says a study by the National Center for Health...
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Beshear says that even if Republicans take over, they won’t be willing or able to reverse his Medicaid expansion
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear may be succeeded by a Republican next year, and the state legislature may even sooner be controlled by Republicans who...
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As Virginia governor fights to follow Kentucky’s lead on Medicaid, free-clinic user says she doesn’t want government handout
Kentucky’s success with federal health reform hasn’t been mirrored in adjoining states. It is a complex topic that was made more complex by the Supreme Court ruling that made it...
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U.S. measles cases highest in 2 decades; blamed mainly on Americans’ foreign travel, but also on opting out of vaccination
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the wake of the highest number of measles outbreaks in the U.S. in the last 20 years, it is important to make sure...
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Daytime mental-health programs shrink, citing problems with managed-care Medicaid; pastoral counselors to be licensed
Access to daytime mental-health care “is on a steep decline in Kentucky, leaving what some fear is a gap in care that isolates the mentally ill at home or drives...
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Some odors we emit make us more attractive to mosquitoes; various repellents, including plant oils, are available
Mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others because of skin odors or chemicals they emit, Jill Richardson writes for Salon. Carbon dioxide, heat, moisture, scent and appearance attract mosquitoes, but...
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As Edelen begins hearings on rural hospitals’ finances, state gives figures on Medicaid expansion and reimbursement
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The expansion of the federal-state Medicaid program funneled $284 million to Kentucky health-care providers in the first quarter of the year, the state Cabinet...