Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Kentucky ranks No. 4 in painkiller prescriptions; neighboring states are first, second and third
Powerful painkillers are a contributing factor in the the rising rate of overdose deaths in the U.S., especially in Kentucky, where officials have recommended more measures be taken to monitor...
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‘This kind of sloppy defiance reeks of a Podunk attitude,’ Hopkinsville paper says after fair doesn’t enforce smoking ban
It’s been a while since we read an editorial as clear, blunt and well-taken as the one the Kentucky New Era ran about the flouting of Hopkinsville’s smoking ban at the...
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Drug developed to treat addiction is being abused, so much that clinics have been opened to sell it
“Suboxone, a popular and highly touted medicine designed to get people off opioids such as painkillers and heroin, is increasingly being abused, sold on the streets and inappropriately prescribed, according...
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Russell County school board makes all campuses tobacco-free, but delays implementation for one year
The Russell County Board of Education has voted to make all the county’s school campuses tobacco-free a year from now, “After some lengthy discussion by the board and visitors,” The...
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Fragile X Syndrome, a little known disorder, is the leading inherited cause of intellectual disabilities; U of L has only clinic for it in Ky.
A common but little-known genetic disorder called Fragile X Syndrome is the leading inherited cause of intellectual disability, autism and developmental delay, and the University of Louisville is home to...
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Study shows if you make whole grains available, kids will eat them
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Parents who think their children won’t eat or like whole-grain products need to put that notion aside and start putting them on the table,...
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Beshear issues executive order funding insurance exchange with fees on insurers, originally used to fund high-risk pool
Gov. Steve Beshear has filed another executive order to continue the state health-insurance exchange he created under federal health reform, “again sidestepping state lawmakers who have blasted Beshear for moving...
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Owensboro plans to extend smoking ban to outdoors
Owensboro Mayor Ron Payne says he has the votes to pass a smoking ban for “all public spaces, including parks and outdoor dining areas and city-owned properties,” Steve Vied reports...
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Drug use and other behaviors, and poor support systems, make Appalachia ripe for liver-damaging hepatitis C virus
The hepatitis C virus is a growing problem in Appalachia because of “high rates of injection use, little access to intervention services and tight-knit social circles,” according to research conducted...