Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Veteran journalist offers advice on covering mental health issues: Be careful, creative, and balanced, not discriminatory
The term ‘mental health’ has been tossed around a lot lately in stories about Kentucky’s mental health funding and mental health coverage through Medicaid expansion. It’s important to use precise...
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Pike County settles its part of Oxycontin lawsuit against Purdue Pharma for $4 million; state remains a plaintiff
Officials of Pike County, Kentucky, announced this week that Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, will pay $4 million to settle the county’s part of a lawsuit the county and...
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Rural cancer survivors are less healthy than urban counterparts; 25 percent of rural cancer survivors smoke
A quarter of rural cancer survivors smoke. Cancer survivors from rural areas live less healthier lives than survivors from urban areas. That’s the diagnosis of a study by the Wake...
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Fewer families report having trouble paying medical bills; near-poor struggle more than poor families
Fewer American families are having problems paying medical bills, but 20 percent of them, particularly those without insurance and those that are “near poor” but not :poor,” still struggle with...
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Study finds that daily use of sunscreen prevents aging of skin
Sunscreen doesn’t just prevent sun burns and skin cancer; using it daily can slow down your skin’s aging too, says a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Australian...
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UK joins Eastern Ky. Healthcare Coalition, giving it five hospitals
The University of Kentucky and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., are joining the Eastern Kentucky Healthcare Coalition, originally comprising Highlands Regional Medical Center of Prestonsburg, Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital...
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State officials tell health-care providers to meet with managed-care companies to get paid, say new system is improving health
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News At the latest in a series of forums on Medicaid managed care, state officials said the new system has improved the quality...
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Kentucky Spirit can’t terminate its Medicaid contract with the state a year early without facing fines, judge rules
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A Frankfort circuit judge ruled Friday that Kentucky Spirit, one of three companies hired by the state in November 2011 to manage health care...
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New report ranks Kentucky 45th in overall senior health
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Everyone dreams about retirement being a happy, healthy time to finally settle down, take time for yourself, travel and count your blessings, but a...
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Judge orders Medicaid managed-care firm to pay for school health services, including $8 million in claims; appeal possible
Medicaid managed care company Kentucky Spirit must cover preventive care services provided by local health departments in schools, a judge has ruled. Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd of Frankfort said the...