Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Obama, fighting to regain traction, calls out McConnell on health care; Kentucky senator replies, and president does it again
White House file photo President Obama called out U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell two days in a row in speeches defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an example...
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Websites that misled Kentuckians seeking health insurance are taken down, blocked or corrected
Three websites that were misleading Kentuckians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and about the state’s health-insurance exchange have either been taken down, corrected or blocked by the...
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Webinar on health-reform coverage to be held Thursday
A one-hour webinar, “Covering Health Care Reform: How to Inform Your Readers,” is being offered from 2 to 3 p.m. ET Thursday at a cost of $45. (The earlybird fee...
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A byproduct of cholesterol that acts like estrogen explains the link between high cholesterol and breast cancer
The link between high cholesterol and breast cancer can now be explained. It is not the cholesterol itself, but a “byproduct of cholesterol (that) functions like the hormone estrogen to...
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Night lingers in Appalachia, but there are rays of sunlight
Harry Caudill talked with U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedyduring his visit to Eastern Kentucky in February 1968. In 1963, Harry Caudill of Letcher County published Night Comes to the Cumberlands:...
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Beshear’s office says he is considering ‘various ideas’ for financing Ky. insurance exchange, not just a 1% fee on policies
“Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration is reconsidering how to pay for the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange amid increased criticism from some Republicans in the legislature and a court case challenging a...
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Stanton Elementary School, closed almost three weeks because of bat infestation, is scheduled to reopen Wednesday
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Stanton Elementary in Powell County will reopen this week after being closed for almost three weeks because of a bat infestation, school officials said...
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Beshear says Medicaid plan will transform Ky. in a generation; acknowledges it was easier because he wouldn’t face voters
In a generation, Kentucky will be a very different state because the federal health-reform law and expansion of Medicaid has made health insurance available to all residents of the state,...
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Feds say reform law has saved Kentuckians on Medicare an average of $928 this year on prescription drugs
The federal health reform law has saved seniors and the disabled millions of dollars on their Medicare prescription-drug coverage, says the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS said 65,040...
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Irvine hospital’s Susan Starling wins American Hospital Association’s award for leadership in small or rural hospitals
Susan L. Starling, president and CEO of Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital in Irvine, is the 2013 winner of the American Hospital Association’s Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award. The award...