Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Study finds personalized text messages helps some quit smoking
Smoking is a hard habit to break. A recent study, reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that sending smokers personalized text messages was twice as effective as giving...
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Steven J. Stack will be second Lexington physician in three years to lead the American Medical Association
Dr. Steven J. Stack, an emergency physician in Lexington, is the new president-elect of the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest organization for physicians Stack, at 43, is the youngest...
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National poll finds many who need health coverage didn’t even shop for it because they didn’t think they could afford it
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News The top two reasons people gave for getting health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act were compliance with the law and a...
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Doctors in emergency rooms say they are busier since Obamacare began; hospitals struggle to handle extra patients
Nearly half of emergency-room doctors say their ERs have seen an increase in patients since health reform went into effect, and 86 percent say they expect the increase to continue,...
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In selling proposed limits on CO2, Obama administration emphasizes health improvement, not climate-change fight
By Melissa Landon and Al Cross Kentucky Health News As it announced its plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, the Obama administration...
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Safety-net hospitals, haven for the uninsured, are seeing more covered patients since the expansion of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hospitals that most often treat the poor and uninsured are seeing fewer uninsured patients since the new health law’s expansion of Medicaid, Phil Galewitz...
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Success of Kynect puts both Senate candidates in a pickle
“The early success of Kentucky’s health care exchange, Kynect, is creating quandaries for both Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan Grimes as they address Obamacare” in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race,” James...
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Elizabethtown cancer clinic pays $3.7 million to resolve claims it diluted drugs, prolonged chemotherapy to make more money
Elizabethtown Hematology Oncology PLC and its owners has paid $3,739,325 to settle claims “that they submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare, Medicaid and the military’s medical provider for extending...
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People with a genetic risk of obesity should avoid saturated fat, national study of 2,800 people suggests
A new study shows that avoiding saturated fat may be advantageous for those whose genetic makeup predisposes them to obesity. Researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center...
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Kentucky gets $1.75 million in national settlement with big drug maker; marketing and promotional practices reined in
Kentucky will receive approximately $1.75 million from a $105 million national settlement with GlaxoSmithKline to resolve allegations that the pharmaceutical manufacturer unlawfully promoted its asthma drug, Advair, and its antidepressant...