Category: YOUR HEALTH
-
Less than 60% of Kentuckians say they visited a dentist in the past year, ranking the state 43rd in the nation
Kentucky ranked 43rd among the 50 states in percentage of people who told pollsters that they had visited a dentist in the past 12 months. The rankings in the annual...
-
Morehead State, UK and Morehead hospital sign agreement to form Appalachian Health and Research Center
Morehead State University, St. Claire Regional Medical Center and the University of Kentucky‘s Institute for Rural Health Policy signed a memorandum of understanding April 30 to form the Appalachian Health...
-
States and their congressmen battling new painkiller that is easier to crush and inject
Some states are restricting the use of the new painkiller Zohydro, “setting up a showdown with the federal government over who gets to decide the best way to protect public...
-
Health reform law isn’t as sweeping when it comes to dental coverage, but Appalachian dentists say it should help
Dr. Heather Whitt explains costs to Anita Slone at the Eula HallHealth Center in Floyd County. (C-J photo by Jessica Ebelhar) In Floyd County, almost 40 percent of adults have...
-
In Floyd County, opinions about health care reform depend on whom you ask, and in some cases they are surprising
At the Eula Hall Health Center in Grethel, nurse Stephanie Clark takes vitals of Mary Murphy, 54, whose leg blood clot wasn’t treated for 15 years because she couldn’t afford...
-
Ky. leads U.S. in emphysema (COPD), but study shows fewer COPD hospitalizations in Ky. places with smoke-free laws
Click on image for larger version People who live in smoke-free communities are less likely to be hospitalized for emphysema, according to a study by the University of Kentucky‘s College of...
-
Insurance companies will be allowed to add one more year to policies that don’t comply with reforms; decisions due May 5
Kentucky’s health insurance companies may extend through Oct. 1, 2016, individual and small-group policies that don’t comply with federal health reform, the state Department of Insurance announced Friday. This means...
-
Poll: Kentuckians still oppose Obamacare, but favor fixes, not repeal, and think state insurance exchange works well
Most Kentuckians still oppose the federal health-reform law, but think it should be changed rather than repealed, and most think the state health-insurance exchange created under the law is working...
-
At National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit, Beshear cites Kentucky’s successes
Gov. Steve Beshear told attendees at the 2014 National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit in Atlanta on Wednesday about the progress Kentucky has made in the last two years in its...
-
Beshear says Kynect signups show importance of health-care reform to Kentucky’s health; Republican foes keep attacking it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Opponents of federal health reform kept up their drumbeat Tuesday as Gov. Steve Beshear announced the latest, but still not quite final, signup figures...