Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Indoor air study is background for smoking-ban discussion in Elliott; statewide ban sponsor is optimistic about a vote
As the debate over a statewide smoking ban persists, a study shows evidence of harmful air quality levels from second-hand smoke in places where smoking is allowed in Elliot and...
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Health reform law is debated and explained on KET
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Two Kentucky Educational Television programs addressed the federal health-reform law Monday night, providing opportunities for Kentuckians to debate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and...
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Fewer teens report using tobacco and abusing prescription drugs, but some attribute latter trend to increase in heroin use
By Melissa Patrick and Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Fewer Kentucky teenagers said last year that they used prescription drugs without a doctor’s direction, or tobacco, than in the last...
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Fighting prescription drug abuse? Save your spot for ‘The Difference Faces of Substance Abuse’ conference Jan. 28-29
Early registration is open for the 2014 Different Faces of Substance Abuse Conference, which seeks to build collaborations and partnerships among Kentucky community members to address the state’s prescription-drug abuse...
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Ky. health-insurance exchange working better than elsewhere; website to undergo scheduled maintenance this weekend
Despite its first-day problems, Kentucky’s new health-insurance website was the nation’s top performer in the new system, the director of state health reform at the Kaiser Family Foundation told The...
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KET program Mon. to answer questions about the Affordable Health Care Act, its impact on state, and obtaining insurance
KET will host a special call-in program to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s enrollment process Monday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The one-hour show will include state...
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Beware of identity thieves exploiting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to get personal information
As if buying health insurance isn’t confusing enough, the Better Business Bureau has sent out a series of releases warning people to beware of scam artists posing as callers claiming...
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New type of artificial knee, designed for individual patients, is being implanted at St. Joseph East in Lexington
Saint Joseph East hospital in Lexington is Kentucky’s first hospital to offer a customized total knee replacement system in which each the knee implant is made to match the individual...
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Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The rollout of the insurance-buying section of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started Oct. 1, and regardless of where you stand on the...
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Kentucky Health Cooperative partners with UK HealthCare, extending coverage to all 120 Kentucky counties
As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, the state’s new non-profit insurance carrier, expanded its coverage Wednesday to the University of Kentucky’s network of...